Hi - venture capitalist here! Great post, but am mostly curious about the financial side of an operation like this.
Most important: Returns (I am in VC after all)
Is financial return at all important to the funders? If so, how does that work, cash comes in the form of donations, some of which results in profit, some of which is returned to funders as dividends (so more of a long-term buy-and-hold strategy)?
Or is it rather more VC like, in the sense that money is only made once the church is sold to other denominations or 'scaling specialists'? (So cash only at exit)
Then the most important, assuming its one of the two above, what
Hi - venture capitalist here! Great post, but am mostly curious about the financial side of an operation like this.
Most important: Returns (I am in VC after all)
- Is financial return at all important to the funders? If so, how does that work, cash comes in the form of donations, some of which results in profit, some of which is returned to funders as dividends (so more of a long-term buy-and-hold strategy)?
- Or is it rather more VC like, in the sense that money is only made once the church is sold to other denominations or 'scaling specialists'? (So cash only at exit)
- Then the most important, assuming its one of the two above, what
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