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Access Ventures Growth Loan Playbook: Guide to Launching a Character-based Lending Program
This playbook is an open-sourced culmination of the steps Access Ventures took and lessons they learned in building a community-first, character lending process.
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Innovative Finance Portfolio Model
This tool allows you to construct a portfolio model using a mix of traditional and innovative capital products – including equity, debt, redeemable equity, and revenue-based loans – and determine returns outcomes across difference scenarios.
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Innovative Finance Deal Model
This tool allows you to forecast a company’s growth and capitalization using traditional and innovative capital products – including equity, SAFEs, convertible notes, redeemable equity, and revenue-based loans – and determine returns outcomes across difference scenarios.
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Recast Capital: Enablement Program
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Sapphire Ventures: OpenLP
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Signature Block Newsletter
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Silicon Valley Bank: Emerging Manager Insights
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Boston Impact Initiative
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Confluence Philanthropy
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Catalyze
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Coolwater Capital (previously Oper8r)
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Left Tackle Capital
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NAIC
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Plexo Capital GPx
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Purpose Foundation
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Recast Capital
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Sutton Capital
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VC Include
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VC Lab
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Calm Fund: Quarterly Subscription Announcement
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New Rules for Equity Crowdfunding (2021)
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American Bankers Association: Guide to the Community Reinvestment Act
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Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: Summary of Proposal to Modernize Community Reinvestment Act Rules
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Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA): Federal Financing Clearing House
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US Economic Development Administration: A Bureau within the US Department of Commerce
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US Foundation Directory
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Think Different About Flow of Investment Capital When Prioritizing Social or Charitable Outcomes: John Tyler in SSRN
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Weekend Fund: Our Tech Stack at a $10M Fund
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VC Tech Stack: Open Source Airtable
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Fund Launch Checklist (2.0) by @TheFundCFO
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2021 VC Tech Stack by Miguel Pinho
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Emerging Fund Manager Tech Stack Twitter Poll: Samir Kaji
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Solo Capitalist Tech Stack Options
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Track Record Template by Sapphire Ventures
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VC Portfolio Construction Model by SVB
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Venture Fund Portfolio Construction by Tactyc
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9 Data Room Components LPs Need from Emerging Managers by Silicon Valley Bank
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Three Truths About Venture Capital And How to Launch a Venture Capital Fund through the Crawl Space
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Interview: What (costs) to expect when you’re expecting (to start an emerging VC)
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Future Returns: Impact Investing Through Donor Advised Funds
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MIT Solve rallies to provide bridge loans and revenue-based financing: Impact Alpha
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MIT Solve’ Enables Tech Entrepreneurs To Conquer Global Social Challenges
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Charitability Term Sheet by John Tyler: Impact Terms
Foundations and other organizations that support innovative financing need new structures in place to help facilitate investments in these models. The Kauffman Foundation’s General Counsel created a Charitability Term Sheet that may help other foundations feel comfortable funding for-profit investment funds with program-related investment (PRI) capital.
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Donor-Advised Funds by Compound
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Investing in Social Impact Innovation by MIT Solve
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Donor-Advised Funds: an underutilized philanthropic vehicle to support innovation in science and engineering by MIT + PRIME Coalition
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Kauffman Capital Access Lab News
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Fidelity Charitable
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ImpactAssets
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National Philanthropic Trust
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Schwab Charitable
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Silicon Valley Community Foundation
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The Boston Foundation
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Vanguard Charitable
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Small Business Administration: SBIC Resources
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US House of Representatives Committee on Small Business: A Review of the SBIC Program
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You Keep Hearing About Rolling Funds And Syndicates — Here’s How They Work: Crunchbase
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Investor.gov Rule 506
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Will Rolling Funds Roll Over the Venture Capital Industry?
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National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
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Project Equity
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Repaired Nations
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SEED Commons
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The Federation of Southern Cooperatives
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Character-based lending for micro business development: empirical insights into conceptualizing character: Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
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Lending on Character, Not Credit Scores: Common Future Case Study
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Beyond Credit Scores: Wins and Lessons from One Year of Character-Based Lending: Common Future
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How Character-Based Lending Nurtures Community Relationships
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Convertible Income Share Agreement (CISA) Open Source Term Sheet: Chisos Capital
The CISA was developed by Chisos Capital. The CISA is a debt-equity hybrid approach that lets us invest at the earliest stages of a person’s entrepreneurial journey.
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Shared Earnings Agreement (SEAL) Term Sheet: Calm Fund
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Profit Share Model (Innovative Finance)
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The Ultimate Guide to CISAs: Chisos Capital
White paper by Chisos Capital to learn how Convertible Income Share Agreements, or CISAs, help entrepreneurs access flexible funding.
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Calm Fund: Blog
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Opportunity Finance Network (OFN): CDFI Locator
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Community Develipment Venture Capital Alliance (CDVCA) Case Studies
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Taking Stock: CDFIs Look Ahead After 25 Years of Community Development Finance: Brookings
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Blog: News and Ideas from OFN
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Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs: Removing Barriers Report (2021 Update): Kauffman Foundation
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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Using Donor-Advised Funds to Invest in Early-Stage Entrepreneurs
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Podcast | Supply-Chain Finance: A Life Preserver for Small Suppliers?
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NY State Surety Bond Assistance Program
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Los Angeles Metro Contractor Development and Bonding Program
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US Export-Import Bank Supply Chain Finance Guarantee Program
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Adventure Finance: Aunnie Patton Power
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Project Equity: Employee Ownership Case Studies
Project Equity curated case studies from employee ownership transitions from across the nation — both from their work and the work of others. Discover employee-owned businesses in your industry, explore their map by region and gain insight on best practices.
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Apis & Heritage Capital Partners Resource Library
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Covering two years of business progress, the 2021 Worker Cooperative State of the Sector is a report on worker-owned and democratic workplaces in the United States.
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Building an Employee Ownership Economy: Social Capital Partners
This discussion paper highlights an opportunity to create a public policy framework that supports employee ownership in Canada.
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Economic Recovery and Employee Ownership: Democracy at Work Institute
DAWI has partnered with the National League of Cities to co-publish Economic Recovery and Employee Ownership, providing timely guidance for municipal leadership on the role employee ownership can play in economic recovery efforts.
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Opportunity Knocking: Impact capital as the transformative agent to take employee ownership to scale: Fifty by fifty
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Guidelines for Equitable Employee Ownership Transitions
A collaborative project of practitioners and thought leaders in the fields of investment management, employee ownership, and socially responsible business who believe deeply in the promise of shared enterprise ownership to build a more just and inclusive economy.
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Steward Ownership: Rethinking Ownership in the 21st Century: Purpose Foundation
Learn how steward-ownership allows companies to protect their values regarding the environment, society, and their employees in their legal DNA; and the positive impacts these structures have on the profitability, longevity, and culture of corporations.
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Black and brown employee ownership for the post-COVID economy: Impact Alpha
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Catalyst Miami
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CO-OP Dayton
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Cooperative Catalyst of New Mexico (CCNM)
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Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI)
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ICA Group
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Illinois Worker Cooperative Alliance
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RBFN Speaker Series Webinar: Molly Otter, Investment Partner at Sage Growth Capital
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RBF for Angel Investors: Sage Growth Capital
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RBF Interview with Molly Otter
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Indie.vc v3 Term Sheet
The documents provide a high-level summary of the Indie.vc terms to be negotiated.
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Vocabulary for the New Risk Capital Landscape: Jamie Finney of Greater Colorado Venture Fund
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Redeemable Equity Term Sheet (Innovative Finance)
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Indie.vc Redemption Payment Spreadsheet
Indie.vc created a spreadsheet to help founders understand the interplay of the Indie.vc v3 variables and run their own scenarios.
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Indie.vc Downloadable cap table
Indie.vc used Capshare data to contrast the cap table impact of the traditional VC funding path (Seed, Series A, and Series B) vs. the Indie.vc path (assumes Indie.vc is the seed funding, “Series A” is funded via profitable revenue growth, then a Series B. They provided a downloadable version for founders to run their own […]
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Redeemable Equity Model (Innovative Finance)
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Intro: by Indie.vc
INTRO was developed by Indie.vc to help unlock the complete view of funding options for your business. Increase your financial literacy and learn about some of the best available funding options for your business.
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Covid 19 is a lesson in why alternative investment structures are needed: Impact Terms
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The End of Indie.vc
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What Ended Indie.vc
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SHARE Investment Instrument: Adamn Huttler
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Supply Chain Finance: Innovations for Supporting Inclusive Entrepreneurship: The New Localism
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Enhancement of the Standard Definintions for Techniques of Supply Chain Finance: Global Supply Chain Finance Forum
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Global Supply Chain Finance Forum
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Bank of America Supply Chain Finance Resource Center
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Asian Development Bank: Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program
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Supply chain financing: An effective way for development banks to support small entrepreneurs: World Bank
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The Rise of Revenue-Based Financing
Discover why startups are increasingly turning to alternative financing options like revenue-based financing. This report was created by Lighter Capital.
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Pollen VC: Revenue Based Loan Cost of Capital Calculator tool
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RBF Term Sheet (Innovative Finance)
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Revenue Loan Term Sheet: from Angel Investing, Start to Finish by Joe Wallin and Pete Baltaxe
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RBF Deal Model (Innovative Finance)
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Lighter Capital: Cost of Capital Calculator
This calculator will help you identify how much value and ownership you would retain by raising RBI compared to equity.
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Growing Your Diverse-Led Business: A Guide To Revenue Based Financing
This report is a founder’s guide to RBF created by Founders First Capital Partners.
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Capital Compass: Vested for Growth
Capital Compass® is an online educational tool designed to help you increase your understanding of the factors that affect what type of capital you might consider for your business.
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Innovative Finance Project: Revenue Based Financing 101
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Innovative Finance Project: Revenue Based Financing 201
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RBF Network
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RBF Resources: Novel Capital
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Q&A with Founders First’s Kim Folsom: Impact Alpha
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Flexible financing can help diverse founders maintain gains in a volatile economy: Kim Folsom for Impact Alpha
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RevUp Fund: Considering a Revenue-Based Deal?
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Revenue-Based Financing
Is there a lesson for entrepreneurs in the recent DoorDash offering?
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The Economic Imperative to Support Marginalized Entrepreneurs with Melissa Bradley of 1863 Ventures
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Rev It Up with Keith Harrington: Adventure Capital Podcast by Wefunder
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Novel Capital Raises $115M: Crunchbase
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Want VC-Level Growth Without Sacrificing Equity? 3 Alternative Funding Options: Crunchbase
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