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What are the best New York City events to attend to meet VC’s and Angel investors?

This is a somewhat tricky question. Although there are many, many excellent events each week in New York that it would make sense for a startup entrepreneur to attend (see Gary’s Guide, Startup Digest, or This Week in NY Innovation), the truth is: VCs and serious investors don’t go to most of them, and the […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
5 Jun 2014
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How To Turn Friction Into Value In Your Startup

Entrepreneurship is not a job for the Lone Ranger. Every startup requires building and maintaining effective relationships with people, including partners, team members, customers, and investors. That means giving and asking for feedback, and learning from it, especially negative feedback. “Friction” is feedback mixed with emotion or drama, making it all the more difficult to […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
1 Jun 2014
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How do startups decide who sits on the board?

A company’s board of directors is technically elected by the company’s shareholders. So before a startup receives outside funding, the board is “elected” by—and usually consists of—the founders (although it may exist in name only.) Once a company receives its initial seed, angel or venture funding, the documents prepared for the investment will include a […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
1 Jun 2014
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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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