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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

Make your public profile as sexy, comprehensive and enticing as possible, adding a short, well done, elevator pitch video (think “the kind of video you see on great Kickstarter campaigns”) and listing your full management team. Any legitimate investor who finds you through Gust will also contact you through Gust!

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.)

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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

But it was under the SEC's watch that countless, massive scams were committed - Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, HealthSouth, and Bernie Madoff duped investors out of billions of dollars in the last decade alone. An investor in a crowdfunding campaign is likely to lose much less than an investor in Enron did. Daniel Sisson.

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