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Great Startups Are Where Soul and Technology Meet

MIT Chapel, Cambridge Mass via Wikipedia Some entrepreneurs forget that they can’t use people the same way they use technology to build a startup. Inventors, for example, are skilled in manipulating technology, but may have little interest or experience engaging people to make an effective team. Unfortunately, startups are not one-man shows, so entrepreneurs need […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
14 Sep 2014
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What are the advantages of stationing your startup in New York City opposed to Silicon Valley / SF?

The world’s fastest growing tech startup ecosystem A much more tightly knit startup community, compared to the larger but more diffuse West Coast community Access to many, many more world market centers (advertising, finance, fashion, media, food, etc.) A city that from the Mayor on down is devoted to helping the tech startup community expand exponentially The […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
14 Sep 2014
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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
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