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Gust to Host Second Annual Venture Forward Conference 2013

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New York, NY (PRWEB) May 29, 2013

Gust, the global investor relations platform connecting high-growth entrepreneurs and active early-stage investors, will host the second annual Venture Forward Conference 2013, in New York City on Tuesday, June 18th. The day-long event, taking place at the TriBeCa Rooftop, will convene the world’s leading angel investors, venture capitalists, non-traditional investors, and select members of the media to discuss and debate the accessibility, growing interest, and future of the rapidly evolving early-stage investing market.

“The landscape of early-stage start-up financing has gone through several changes as its popularity and access continue to grow and expand. Venture Forward 2013 will bring together the industry’s leaders for a high-level debate and discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing early-stage investing,” said David S. Rose, CEO of Gust. “This conference is an exclusive opportunity to hear from the world’s leading investors and brightest minds at the forefront of the industry to help shape the direction of the early-stage ecosystem.”

Industry visionaries speaking at the event include Allan May of Emergent Medical Partners, Andrew Cleland of Comcast Ventures, Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad, Christine Herron of Intel Capital, Bob Rice of Tangent Capital, David Hornik of August Capital, Dusan Stojanovic of True Global Ventures, John Huston of Ohio TechAngels, Linda Holliday of Citia, Mark Suster of GRP Partners, Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures, Rory Eakin of CirclUp, and Sunny Bates of Sunny Bates Assocates. Discussion moderators will include leading financial journalists from Bloomberg and CNBC.

In addition to a highly interactive conference agenda and participation in panel discussions, attendees will have the opportunity to take part in the conference’s professional networking opportunities to foster high-end engagement and dialogue with featured angel investors, venture capitalists, prominent media figures, and policy makers.

Participation in Venture Forward 2013 is by invitation. Interested parties may apply by visiting the online registration request form on the conference website.

About Gust

Gust provides the global platform for the sourcing and management of early-stage investments. Gust enables skilled entrepreneurs to collaborate with the smartest investors by virtually supporting all aspects of the investment relationship, from initial pitch to successful exit. Gust is endorsed by the world’s leading business angel and venture capital associations, and powers over 750 investment organizations in 65 countries. More than 180,000 start-ups have already used the platform to successfully managed fundraising rounds.

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Next up for disruption: The grocery business

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Next up for disruption: The grocery business
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Jennifer Fulwiler, who wrote an article for the National Catholic Register titled, “Why Don't We Dress up Anymore,” says her great-grandfather would put on a coat and tie just to go grocery shopping. The reasons why people stopped dressing up could …
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Making a Case for Inbound Marketing
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eGood Among 50 Top Innovators to Present at New York Venture Summit 2013

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New York, NY (PRWEB) June 13, 2013

eGood was chosen as a presenter at the 13th annual New York Venture Summit at The Digital Sandbox Network Event Center on June 17-18. The premier industry gathering was created by youngStartup Ventures to connect the country’s top start-ups and early-stage companies with an exclusive audience of venture capitalists, angel investors, and strategic partners. eGood was selected as one of 50 Top Innovators, and one of just a few companies in the technology/social good sector, making presentations.

“We’re excited about the momentum developing with eGood, and this adds even more to it,” said founder and CEO Zack Swire. “We’ve already seen a growing demand in the U.S. market. Just recently at Sustainable Brands ’13, we learned the global demand is much greater than we realized as well, especially in countries like the UK, Germany, China, and Brazil.”

For now, eGood is proving itself by getting off the ground in Glendora and Claremont, California, where six months of signups have resulted in over $ 4,000 in donations to 12 causes. According to Swire, “With a relatively small donation base, we’ve already seen a significant impact. Imagine what we can achieve when eGood takes off around the country and around the world.”

About eGood:

eGood is a movement about choosing good. It empowers businesses to give to worthy causes, activates the community, and allows users to track their impact and see how ordinary actions create extraordinary change. eGood’s goal is to become the ubiquitous way for businesses to give back while providing sustainable benefits to all parties. Find out more at http://www.egood.com.







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Investors' Circle – Impact Happens Here

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This video is an introduction to Investors’ Circle, a network of 150+ angel investors, venture capitalists, foundations, and family offices that are using pr…
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The shifting focus of venture capital firms

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Learn more at PwC.com – http://pwc.to/J0a5bj PwC’s Global Software Industry Leader Mark McCaffrey discusses the changing behavior of venture capitalists.

Here's Why Angel Investors Say No To Entrepreneurs

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by Kmeron

Angels, or private investors, invest more money in more companies at an earlier stage than venture capitalists. They are the lifeblood for seed and start-up businesses. Why do they say no?

Angels Just Don’t Get It
Entrepreneurs who face rejection by angel investors often blame it on the angels: those investors cannot understand my wonderful technology, or the angels won’t bother to take the time to understand. Some of this is just a means to protect the entrepreneur’s tender ego, but it does point out how there can be critical gaps in communication: an entrepreneur thinks he’s doing a good job explaining the deal, but in fact he’s not getting through at all.

Angel Was The Wrong Audience
Angel investors invest smaller amounts of capital in earlier stage companies than venture capitalists do. They also take more of an interest in the day-to-day management of companies they invest in. Investors aren’t usually interested in investing in life style companies, ie., companies that provide a comfortable life style for the owner, but don’t have expansive growth opportunities. They want to see a company that can reach significant earnings in a short amount of time.

Lack of Preparation by Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs are often guilty, in their eagerness to get started building their company, of seeking out angel investors before they are prepared to present their deal or carry on negotiations. Angel investors often have a great deal of business experience and can ask the kinds of probing, difficult questions that quickly puncture inflated projections or poorly thought out strategies.

ROI/Exit Strategy
Entrepreneurs emphasize bringing capital into the company; investors are quite reasonably interested in getting capital out of the company. Unless the entrepreneur can convince the investor that a lucrative exit is possible within a reasonable time frame, the deal is unlikely to get done.

Management Team
Angel investors invest in the management team of a company. Often there’s only the business plan, at best a prototype product, and no revenues. If the management team is weak or inexperienced, angels are reluctant to invest.

Deficiencies in the Presentation by Entrepreneurs
It is an unpleasant fact that entrepreneurs with good ideas can still miss out on obtaining funding because of poorly prepared business plans, executive summaries, and other presentation materials. A great business plan does not raise capital for a company (you need a great management team as well), but a poor plan sends a signal to investors that the founders may also be sloppy in the way they run the company.

The Concept or the Idea is Flawed
Some ideas have zero chance of getting funded, and that’s just the way it is.

Entrepreneur Was Not Able To “Sell” the Investment
Part of raising capital depends on simple sales skill, and if the founder of the company does not have that skill, he needs to develop it quickly or have someone with that skill assist him with the presentations to investors.

Subjective Factors
The decisions made by angel investors are not cut-and-dried based on analysis that leads to an easily obtained conclusion. Angels operate in an environment where the crystal ball can get extremely cloudy at times, and must rely on their instincts honed through many years of being on the firing line in their own companies.

How to Avoid Hearing ‘no’ from an Angel

1) Spend a lot of time discussing how the management team’s background will lead to growth and profitability for this venture
2) Do not skimp on the time and effort spent on developing and practicing the presentation to angels; Don’t ‘wing it’ with angels
3) Don’t assume everyone can pick up on technical jargon; keep the presentation in layman’s terms as much as possible
4) Test your business model out on experienced business people and obtain their feedback before seeking funding
5) Present alternative ways the investor can exit the deal, when and how.

Dee Power is the author of several nonfiction business books and a guide on how to write a business plan She writes on the topics of how to reduce credit card debt

Capital Medical Venture Whom To Approach For Funding

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Capital medical venture or angel investor? Most entrepreneurs are confounded with this all-important question today. Who will invest money in their business or, more importantly which sort of investment should they approach? What would suit their business better?

Capital Medical Venture

A really good way of gauging this is by gauging your business venture. If you are confident of the ability of your business venture to provide good returns really soon, then go for venture capital firms. If you want to start large, then this is for you. These firms invest a whole lot of money, yes Im talking big money here their starting investment is five hundred thousand dollars and it goes into millions! But, they also charge a really high rate of interest more than twenty percent per annum. Plus you need to give them quick returns, which generally is not a problem in the medicine field.

A capital medical venture is a venture which is quite challenging to finance because it is a type of venture which requires an extensive expertise of the industry and a very, very methodical form of planning. The good news is nowadays, venture capital firms are actively on the lookout for companies like manufacturers of diagnostics, radiation systems of the intracoronary kind and surgical instruments which are minimally invasive. So if you are starting out on a business in the medical field, a capital medical venture, then this is the best time to start.

There are groups of venture capitalists who are very generous indeed and are willing to provide an entrepreneur with two hundred million dollars on (hold your breath!) a single transaction. What is more they are willing to consider many different kinds of investment structures such as management buyouts, recapitalizations which are leveraged, minority equity positions as well. So they are willing to be flexible.

Whom To Choose?

Coming back to the main point. What are the differences between an angel investor and a venture capital firm?

An angel investor generally has his own pricate money which he is willing to invest in a business. But a venture capitalist gets their money from a collection or rather, a group of wealthy individuals. Thus there is a big difference in the motivations of these two kinds of investors and the reasons behind why they invest.
A venture capital firms main motivation is to get good returns. Moreover, competition for their limited kind of funding is extremely keen. Many firms fund only about five companies out of say, every thousand business proposals they view per year so they are extremely cautious.

Angel investors have, on the other hand, experience in building a company. Sometimes, it gives them a high to invest in new startups and that is their sole reason for investment. Sometimes an idea catches their fancy and they invest for the heck of it.

A capital medical venture is often a risky business, so opting for an gel investor in this case is the best course of action for a new entrepreneur.

Are you planning to startup your Capital Medical Venture? Visit http://www.ventureworthy.com/capital_medical_venture.asp to get the latest tips, and helpful resources.

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Venture Capital Intevestments For Consumer Brands Development

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Venture capital will be ordinarily offered from the venture capitalists and also the professionals who invest money inside young, speedily developing companies that have the possibilities to be able to come to be considerable economic contributors. Its best option intended for businesses along with great up-front capital prerequisites which often cannot be financed by simply cheaper alternatives such as debt. These types of venture capital firms are actually the private close ties that are funded by simply private along with public cash, endowment cash, foundations, corporations, well-to-do persons and also foreign investors. These types of venture funds may usually use up these types of assignments -financing new along with speedily developing companies, aiding the development connected with new products and also services, purchase equity securities, increase value to the company via lively involvement and also have better risks while using expectation connected with better returns. Although taking into consideration company intended for capital investment, these types of venture capitalists properly screen the practical along with business merits from the proposed company which is presented comprising business plan to be able to these people.

The forms of venture cash usually offered from the venture capitalists and so are currently considering are generally consumer product venture funds such as health care venture cash, education venture funds, residence along with personal care venture funds, retail venture cash along with venture cash intended for business such as computers, software, networking along with FMCG venture fund.   Whatsoever will be the industry, business will be relevant along with, brand is essential since it helps to produce the consumer be connected essential to build long-term, developing businesses. A number entrepreneurs do not have sufficient cash to be able to finance projects by themselves, and they must as a result look for in the garden university. Intended for Branding Advertising claims to be an crucial issue and then for this place must invest massive amount money. There are a few Indian venture cash that will offer venture capital intended for brand promotion along with advertising media inputs intended for business growth. The firms such as Times group private treaties significant other while using investee companies compliment these people inside making consumer brand value along with inside return the investee gives shares and also an integral part of business control to the investors.

Morpheus India is an Indian venture fund that provides venture funds for Indian consumer brands, Morpheus investing in mid-sized company as FMCG venture funds such as education venture fund and healthcare venture fund, Morpheus capital venture fund for specialty retail sectors.

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