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10 Early Mistakes Startup Founders Should Avoid D9aa1adbb0aeeeb61a9800d1df81c1460d99acecba203b7d0f9d21e61e965e1f

10 Ways To Kill A Growing Business With Bad Hires

Every startup with any traction quickly reaches a point where they need to hire employees to grow the business. Unfortunately, this always happens when pressures are the highest, and business processes are ill-defined. At this point you need superstars and versatile future executives, yet your in-house hiring processes and focus are at their weakest. The […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
25 May 2014
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What are some good things about Gust that some founders might not know?

As the largest global database of startups (bigger than Crunchbase and AngelList combined, and more than double the size of StartupGenome), searchable by keyword and location, and with all entries written by the startups themselves, it can provide a quick sanity check before you go around saying “we have no competitors”. Rest assured that your […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
25 May 2014
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What should I include in an investor provisions summary?

Original question on Quora: “I was asked to summarize the provisions of the operating agreement that an angel investor would want to know prior to (or at) the term sheet stage. What should I include (or what should I exclude, given that on first pass I have 8 pages excerpted from the operating agreement)?” From the […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
22 May 2014
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Who are the Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists with a focus on early-stage businesses started by minorities?

Although that’s probably not the right question to be asking (because the right investor is one who is investing in you as a businessperson, not you as a minorityperson), some firms and groups specializing in this sector are NMAN, the National Minority Angel Network (http://www.nmanetwork.com/), MAIN, the Minority Angel Investor Network (http://www.minorityangelinvestor…), and Jalia Ventures(http://www.jaliaventures.com/). […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
18 May 2014
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Customer Engagement Is Key To Branding Yourself

The days are gone when a techie or a genius could build things in his garage and customers would find and buy the product, based purely on the “wow factor” of the technology. New technologies are everywhere today. People have seen so much that they are blasé, or actually fear pure technology. They want a […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
18 May 2014
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