davidsrose

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by davidsrose 10y ago
Hi, this is David S. Rose, CEO of Gust. Thanks for all these interesting comments. The reason we don’t spend time talking about selling a C corp is because pragmatically it is irrelevant to what we’re doing. Gust Launch is designed for a ve
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by davidsrose 17y ago
Folks, I realize that Jason and Matt have set me up to take the fall here as some kind of epitome of evil, and I certainly understand that people don't think it makes sense for us to charge any application fees. I've explained our reasoning
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by davidsrose 17y ago
New York Angels is a not-for-profit membership organization, which means that the organization itself, unlike a startup company, is not designed to produce a profit. Since it has no shareholders, there is no one to whom any profit (excess o
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by davidsrose 18y ago
Alain, That's a good question, which I'd answer as follows: (a) just because someone says something on TheFunded doesn't make it gospel [grin], but (b) IN GENERAL, and taken as a rule of thumb, the advice is pretty good. Where it breaks dow
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by davidsrose 18y ago
VCs pay (because they are for-profit entities with operating budgets that are funded by management fees), angel groups don't pay (because they are typically non-profit, or informal, associations of individuals). Individual angels don't pay
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by davidsrose 18y ago
ROFL! mnemonicscloth, you've made my day! It took me an hour and a half to write that post in direct response to Paul's, and it's certainly not boilerplate (feel free to Google any chunk of it you'd like, and I'd be surprised if you'd find
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by davidsrose 18y ago
Alain, as much as I appreciate your kind words [grin], I disagree with your premise. If the alternative is to NOT open the platform to entrepreneurs, how does that help anyone? Even in a world of Web 2.0 and fast-track development, creating
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by davidsrose 18y ago
Paul, with all due respect, I have to disagree. As both the Chairman of New York Angels, and the CEO of Angelsoft (which grew out of our perceived need for a comprehensive deal management platform), I think it's both inaccurate and unfair t
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by davidsrose 18y ago
If a VC cares only about the problem and solution, what does that say about how much they want to invest in YOU? Not much. Most early stage investors (like me) have no choice but to 'bet the jockey, not the horse', because we are betting on
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by davidsrose 18y ago
My [very strong] advice is not to do a live demo DURING YOUR POWERPOINT PITCH. You'll absolutely need to do a demo at a later point (perhaps even immediately following your pitch presentation), but what we're talking about here is a very sp
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by davidsrose 19y ago
There are actually quite a few startup tech incubators in New York, although the reality is that costs simply are not what they are in Ohio, or elsewhere in the 'real world'. They range from the completely not-for-profit ones such as Pace,