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Why We Built Gust Launch

There’s often a steep learning curve on the business side of startups, which distracts from the startup’s core reason for being: their product or service. We wanted to make it easier to get a startup off the ground, while both avoiding costly missteps and helping founders learn about the business side along the way.
Alan Mcgee
Alan Mcgee , HEAD OF PRODUCT , GUST INC.
9 Mar 2017
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Co-founder Equity Split: A New Framework to Objectively Divide Startup Ownership and Get Back to Building a Business

We’ve just released our free Co-founder Equity Split tool. It’ll give you a fair and objective recommendation about how to divide your startup’s ownership, so you and your co-founders will have a sensible, real starting point for this notoriously hard, crucially important conversation. Many startup founders find themselves lacking clarity and direction when it comes time to […]
Keyvan Firouzi
Keyvan Firouzi , CFA, DIRECTOR , VALUATION SERVICES
4 Nov 2016
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The Expanding World of Accelerators

In some ways, it is now difficult to imagine a world without accelerators. Many of the globe’s most well-known and disruptive startups were propelled from the hallways of legendary accelerators such as Y Combinator, TechStars, and 500 Startups. AirBnb, Dropbox, Zenefits, Stripe, DigitalOcean, Heroku, Optimizely, Intercom, Reddit, and hundreds of other startup success stories were […]
Justin Cina
Justin Cina , Marketing Director , GUST INC.
14 Jun 2016
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From Accelerators to Venture Capital: What is best for your startup?

With startup growth up 61% since 2014 and more investment programs emerging, it can be overwhelming for founders to know just where to jump in. As the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet, MassChallenge has helped 835 startup companies around the world, who have raised over $1.1 billion in funding and created over 6,500 jobs. We have seen […]
Romain Debordeaux
Diane Perlman , Chief Marketing Officer , MassChallenge
21 Mar 2016
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Ask A Founder: Startup Lessons Learned from Work Truck Solutions’ Kathryn Schifferle

Kathryn Schifferle, Founder and CEO of Work Truck Solutions, turned being a woman in work trucks into an oversubscribed $2.1 million round. We sat down with Kathryn as she shared what her fundraising journey was like, the startup lessons she learned, and her advice to fellow founders, especially women. Here is what she had to say: […]
Hillary Keller
Hillary Keller , Senior Marketing Manager , GUST INC.
8 Mar 2016
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