Gust

JULY 8, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. For a startup founder, this stage is when the “big idea” has become a passion for him, but he hasn’t written anything down yet. Incremental investment may follow.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Setting up a clean, effective web site that lists companies seeking funding and provides accounts for investors to interact with them is not rocket science. As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description. Today, it can sign one deal with a cloud service provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to replace all of the above. After eliminating all of these types of assets, what remains? Intellectual property.

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Gust

JUNE 7, 2014

In many, if not most, seed and early stage funding scenarios, the investments are structured in LIFO order: Last In, First Out. Invested Interests company early stage funding investors startup starup'

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

The amount of investment in IP in any direct sense is generally small for early stage startups. Developing Web content (both the design and underlying code) (copyright, trademark). Measured as a discrete line item in a budget, it might be near zero. Creating product mock-ups , wireframes, etc. trade secret). By 2013, the U.S.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Anyone seriously considering entering this market should start by doing a great deal of research on the subject, including checking out the many existing sites in operation, the testimony provided during congressional hearings on the subject, and the several web sites springing up that aim to provide information about the field.

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Gust

JULY 26, 2012

The unbelievably seismic changes resulting from exponentially advancing technology mean that the ‘traditional’ venture world is rapidly giving way to a new world of micro-VC, “super angel”, early-stage seed funds, which have very different economics.

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