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What Founders Should Consider Early Exit Offer 601e498501579f6bfb2b1c25ae3ca66095ba6d7760710e7efe27246998f9eed7

What are the most common exits for Angel Investors?

Here, in a completely unsourced, purely anecdotal and totally subjective answer with numbers pulled out of the air, is my guess:  *original post can be found on Quora @ http://www.quora.com/David-S-Rose/answers *
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
12 Oct 2014

Is making Equity Crowdfunding available to all a good thing?

Part of the challenge is the enormous amount of ignorance surrounding this suddenly hot topic. There are thousands of companies that “the crowd” can fund without restriction, including Apple, Google and Facebook. These are “publicly tradable companies”, and what makes them so are the extensive rules surrounding disclosure, transparency, trading and other aspects of their […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
9 Oct 2014
Test Your Business Model Against These 10 Elements

How do I get in touch with investors/funds with just an idea and no product?

There are many wonderful ideas, and they are not necessarily easy to come up with. So congratulations on having thought of one! However… “Having value” and “Being fundable” are two completely different things. What the more experienced responders here are saying is completely accurate: while a good idea is usually a necessary ingredient for the formation of […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
5 Oct 2014
Successful Startup Founders Invest In Their Own Ventures 0742d64fd6a698c3cfa409e71c3cc4e5620a7e7299f434f1380bb4cde9bc488a (1)

Is there an incubator for aspiring Angel Investors or VCs?

No, but there are several sets of courses on angel investing that can provide a good base from which to start. The most comprehensive and best known is the Power of Angel Investing seminar series developed by the Angel Resource Institute (formerly known as the Angel Capital Education Foundation, and prior to that part of […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
2 Oct 2014
Why We Built Gust Launch Hero 5848057ecc4f9b6d1fe0e0fec4f034a6516d4cb8653df7f3b8b8f061a65190d1

What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. As such, the competition from an entrepreneur’s standpoint is very, very […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
28 Sep 2014
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