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Do venture capital firms or private equity funds offer debt financing for startups?

The direct answer to your question is NO, VC and PE funds do not provide debt financing for any companies. Their entire business model is based on investing in companies that can potentially offer very high returns. For venture capital, this is typically ten times the invested capital, and those returns can only be achieved through equity appreciation, not […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
22 Dec 2013
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7 Questions Test Entrepreneur Focus Before Funding

The first question most people seem to ask when contemplating a new startup is where they will get investor money. That’s certainly a valid question, but all the money in the world won’t make your business work if you don’t have a plan to use it, or hate what you are doing. I suggest that […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
22 Dec 2013

Series Seed or Convertible Note? Which one is more founder friendly? Which one do investors prefer?

There is not a definitive answer to this, because a good lawyer can write terms into either one to make one or the other preferable to one or the other party. That said, the primary entrepreneur-friendly reason for doing a Convertible Note (and the reason that no serious investor under regular circumstances will therefore do an uncapped […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
19 Dec 2013
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What are the differences between startups/tech companies founded in Silicon Valley and those founded in New York?

While there are differences in the startup communities on the two coasts, and while there are definite differences in the investment communities, I’ve found much less of a difference in the types of companies being started. To the extent that there is one, my guess is that it has as much to do with the traditional market strengths of […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
15 Dec 2013
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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. Yet, according to many sources, over 90 percent of all businesses are started and grown with no equity financing, and many others would have been […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
15 Dec 2013
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