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Posted On: August 5, 2016
Posted In: accredited, angel, Christina Farr, Fast Company, funding, investing, investor, JOBS act, Quentin Hardy, The New York Times, venture capital
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Posted In: accredited, angel, Christina Farr, Fast Company, funding, investing, investor, JOBS act, Quentin Hardy, The New York Times, venture capital
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How can you invest in Silicon Valley startups before everyone else? And should you?
The host pointed out the insane probability of picking the next “Uber”. Instead, one should be looking at a royalty model where the “investor” gets a near-term return on sales of a product. An example of this won the PayPal Developers Awar in 2010 by creating a payment method that distributed royalties to lists of people based on the unit sales of the product. At the time, the company using the model was called Appbackr.