Comments on: Capital Alchemy: Make Fixed Costs Variable

By: On demand computing can increase a company’s risk! « Meritocracy Consulting Blog

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:59:44 +0000

[...] Recently, I met with Kent Goldman from First Round capital at an office hours event in Santa Monica. We spoke about many interesting ideas (some mine, some general tech stuff), and as I wrote my thank you email, I came across an interesting post of his about a concept he is calling Capital Alchemy, or how to convert traditionally fixed costs into variable costs. [...]

By: Pinaki

Pinaki — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:15:34 +0000

In fact, the whole video hosting platform services are growing like mushrooms just because of Amazon AWS. Actually, the real value is now to find a very effective outsource-process management guy who can procure resources from the rest of the world and could translate the specs to build it from low-cost centers and then scale on AWS’s nodes! As simple as that. So founders get your sleeves up and become mercenaries .. hunt them down and get it done!

By: Bennet

Bennet — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:56:42 +0000

You can reduce your financial risk even further these days. Why pay for clicks that may not convert when affiliates will accept payment per lead or even deal?

By: The ChubbyBrain Blog

The ChubbyBrain Blog — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:13:11 +0000

I Blog, Therefore I Invest? Do Blogging Venture Capitalists Invest More in Startups?…

Given our recent analysis of VCs and Angels who Twitter and how it compared to their investment activity in 2009, we thought the logical extension of this would be to examine VCs and Angels that blog and compare their blogging activity to their investm…

By: Tom Jackson

Tom Jackson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:14:00 +0000

As a serial, sometimes parallel, entrepreneur I love capital alchemy. My favorite feature is on-demand dilution on a sliding scale. The old $5M model calls for a big hit followed by the opportunity for a disastrous hit when you need more capital.