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Find And Hire Startup Lawyer Hero E6bab2f09f17ab095368b9bd462de7f02dc0c9ee8ef6a1fa22c9feb6abc5779c

How long does it take for investors to approve the idea and to grant the necessary investment?

The question is based on a misunderstanding of how venture capital investment works. First of all, VC funds do not invest in ideas. What VCs invest in are operating  companies that are ready (or almost ready) to scale. There are many wonderful ideas, all of which are not fundable. Only companies get funded. Next, VCs don’t have […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
11 Sep 2014
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Of the private companies trading on secondary markets, how much of those companies’ stock is available through the secondary market?

On average…none. The secondary market for private company stock is brand new, and so nascent that it is virtually nonexistent. For a very brief time, when Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon and Zynga were still private, there was a quick flurry of private secondary sales through platforms like SecondMarket and SharesPost. But there was much, much, much […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
7 Sep 2014
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There seems to be a lack of long-term investment in startups. Why is the 3-5 year exit strategy more desirable than a 10-20+ year timeframe?

Precisely because seed stage investments in private startup companies are NOT Warren Buffet’s types of investments. Early venture and angel investments are much, much riskier than Buffett’s, with more than half of them typically failing completely and losing the entire investment. As such, the returns on an early stage portfolio typically come from only one […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
7 Sep 2014
Trade Signal Fundraising Strategy

Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO, following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn.  This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class […]
Antone Johnson
Antone Johnson , Founding Principal , Bottom Line Law Group
7 Sep 2014
Test Your Business Model Against These 10 Elements

Dread Startup Problems Or Learn To Enjoy Challenges

Stressed entrepreneur photo via Wikipedia If you can’t solve problems and enjoy it, you won’t make it as an entrepreneur. By definition, an entrepreneur is the first to undertake a given business, and firsts never happen without problems and people frustrations. The toughest problems are people problems, like personnel issues, but there are tough operational […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
7 Sep 2014
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