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10 Early Mistakes Startup Founders Should Avoid D9aa1adbb0aeeeb61a9800d1df81c1460d99acecba203b7d0f9d21e61e965e1f

Is it a good idea to ask for investments on your webpage?

No, because it is almost certainly against the law or regulations wherever you’re located (in the US it would be called General Solicitation). Check with your attorney to understand what you can and cannot say, and to which audiences.
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
31 Jul 2014
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When do you suggest startups begin fund raising?

If founding a startup was easy, there would be a lot more of them, and the percentage that are successful would be much higher. Unfortunately, it isn’t. The essence of entrepreneurship is creating a new venture where one does not already exist in the market as you find it. As such, the founding process is […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
27 Jul 2014
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5 Entrepreneur Ideas That Investors See Too Often

People are always asking me for an inside tip on Internet sites that will be “the next big thing.” Those are hard, since someone has to invent something innovative, but I do have some views on other ideas whose time has come and gone. In some cases, these are concepts that have already been done […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
27 Jul 2014
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How does someone get a meeting with angel investor David S. Rose?

The most useful meetings with an investor are ones where going in everyone understands that there may actually be a rational reason for the investor to be interested. So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
24 Jul 2014
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What is the best way to connect with investors?

With Gust, the power of the system is that your completed investor relations profile can now serve as your official application to virtually any organized angel group in the world…all you need to do is share it with them*.  I’d suggest that you browse through the Gust investor search engine for investment groups (and accelerators, incubators, business plan […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
20 Jul 2014
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