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What Founders Should Consider Early Exit Offer 601e498501579f6bfb2b1c25ae3ca66095ba6d7760710e7efe27246998f9eed7

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
What Are Contracts 445793d0c238315dfbb0ef2084ad3e07d48488b1f03a8df2f6092f7f229c495d

What tools can I use to manage relationships with investors?

Gust.com is the most widely used tool platform for both sides, with hundreds of thousands of companies and tens of thousands of investors using it to track and manage their relations with the other. It’s the official collaboration tool of the Angel Capital Association (and the equivalent national angel investor federations in 20 other countries.) It’s […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
4 Sep 2014
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Every Entrepreneur Needs Help In Getting Things Done

The universal challenge of every startup founder is to get everything done that needs to get done, and still have a life. Even outside of business, everyone wants to accomplish more, while working less. I’ve been a student of these techniques for some time, but some time ago I saw a great summary that seems […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
1 Sep 2014
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