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Rabil: Premier Lacrosse League Gives Stock Options to Its Players
“What you have in Silicon Valley is the treatment of your employees Where they get stock options of the business and that's carved out in your employee cap table. So we carved out a portion of that for our players. And so our players have options in the busines…”
Rabil: Athlete Angel Investors Offer Startups Immediate Customer Acquisition Channels
“That's why athletes are now really valuable for early stage startups as small investors that can, if you're the entrepreneur and you carve it out well, get access to their audience. It's like immediate customer acquisition.”
Rabil: Founders Leveraged Private Equity Backing to Attempt MLL Buyout
“So about six months later, we went back to MLL with overhead capital that we had acquired at the time as primarily private equity, and we proposed a number of different scenarios of essentially buying them or rolling them up and keeping them involved from an e…”
Rabil: Athlete Social Followings Are Up to Eight Times Larger Than Teams
“That athletes following are four, sometimes eight to one the size of their teams and league.”
Rabil: Less Than Five Percent of Sports Fans Attend Games in Person
“Less than five percent of sports fans actually go to games.”
Rabil: Lacrosse Is North America's Fastest-Growing Youth Team Sport
“It's the fastest growing team sport in North America at the youth level over the last 15 years.”
Rabil: MLL Paid Rookie Players Just $6,000 for the Entire 2008 Season
“A low wage, which at the time for rookies was 6000 dollars for the whole season.”
Rabil: Unstaffed 24-Hour Gyms Generate Strong Cash Flow at 250 Members
“There didn't need to be an attendee there. They had this 24 hour security system that kicked back to HQ, so that's why I was really lean, and we could operate these things and If you get them up to 250 to 500 members, they spit out cash”
Rabil: Funding Circle Acquired Endurance Lending Network During Its Series A
“We started endurance lending network. So he shifted his time full time there that got acquired by funding circle. When we were out for our series a that turned into funding circle us”
Rabil: Premier Lacrosse League Raised Seed VC to Secure Media Rights
“We shifted quickly from private equity to venture because this was certainly a venture investment. So we raised a small seed round, and the goal of that was to allow us to anchor a network deal Secure venues, get first leads in on sponsors, sign up players, hi…”