The spreadsheet Missoula, Montana-based Goodworks Ventures uses to model Indie-VC-structure investments with founders

Their tool is brilliant in its simplicity. It doesn’t get much more transparent than working off of the same spreadsheet as founders, with founders.

About a year ago, we held the Alternative Capital Summit in Denver, CO. The event birthed helpful direction for the plight of the 81% of founders who are left behind by the debt-equity paradigm.

For Kiah Hochstetler, COO of Goodworks Ventures, the ideas of the summit were missing one thing: concrete and objective–numbers.

Revenue-based investment (RBI) sounds great, but what are the real financial consequences associated with it? How do you know if a company can afford RBI?

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