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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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Practice Entrepreneur Integrity As Seen By Others

As an entrepreneur, your personal integrity is critical for getting and keeping the support of investors and team members, and your company’s integrity is critical for getting and keeping customers and vendors. But in a practical sense, what does that really mean? Most definitions of integrity include something like “the quality of being honest and […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
20 Jul 2014
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Why should different stock classes in a startup be created?

A useful way to look at it is the difference between current value and potential value. When an investor puts money into a company in exchange for an ownership stake, mathematics means that the amount of ownership the investor receives for the amount of the investment determines the “value” being assigned to the existing company before the investment. […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
17 Jul 2014
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