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"The new Angel Capital Association model convertible note form rates 🦄🦄🦄🦄 ½ – four and a half unicorns, a winner!" -Gil Silberman This summer, the Angel Capital Association (ACA) announced the ACA Model Convertible Promissory Note. This note was developed by a task force of established early-stage investors and attorneys who routinely represent both founders and investors in early stage financings. We at Gust are excited by this new tool and its potential to become an industry standard form document that balances the rights of founders and investors, and includes common alternative provisions for consideration. This Thursday (8/15), we're hosting a discussion with David S. Rose, Gil Silberman & Dror Futter to learn about and discuss the implications of this new Convertible Note. If you'd like to better understand the perspectives of experienced investors and startup attorneys who will use this tool, make sure to join us at 5pm ET! 📅 RSVP below ⤵

Really looking forward to this conversation with Eric Richmond and Matr (matter) Ventures. In addition to being one of the smartest folks I know, Eric Richmond is truly one of the best. Excited to chat about how we can reduce miscommunication and friction in early-stage investing!

Check it out! We've joined forces with Coconut VA and Forecastr to put on a virtual pitch event tomorrow afternoon! If you're a B2B SaaS startup and want to get your product in front of investors and industry experts, this is the event for you. Use the link below to register. We hope to see you there 🚀 📈

🚀 Webinar: How to Get 30+ Investor Meetings in 30 Days 🚀 Looking to secure investor meetings and accelerate your fundraising efforts? Join Coconut VA, Forecastr, and Gust for a powerful session where we’ll reveal the strategies to help you book 30+ investor meetings in just 30 days! 🗓️ Date: October 3, 2024 🕒 Time: 2:00 PM CST 📍 Location: Zoom Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with investors and take your startup to the next level! 🔥 🔗 Register Now: https://bit.ly/4exTGJM

On Oct 1st, technical leaders of Nashville startups are sharing about the technical challenges they are working on. This event is exclusively for engineers + startup founders/startup engineering leaders to meet one another! We will be hearing from: CTO of Grouped (just raised their seed) CTO of Soundstripe (Series B) Head of Engineering at InRev (just raised their seed) Founder of Triplit (recently blew up on hackernews) VP of Engineering at Opsera (hiring here in town) There will be plenty of other non-technical founders too. If you wanna join, link in the chat. Thanks so much to Hunter Mitchem, Dr. T, and Eric Busby for making it possible 🚀

FREE PITCH EVENT We invite accredited investors to hear pitches from 4 exciting, high quality, early-stage companies at the free, September 25, Virtual Angels Network Pitch Event. These startups were screened/vetted by Virtual Angels Network members who have relevant experience. The four companies pitching are the best current deals from all around the country. There are no sponsors to bore you. After the pitches and Q&A, the companies will leave (virtually), and the potential investors will share their thoughts.   This event is for any accredited investor, but only accredited investors. No service providers or entrepreneurs (except those who have already been invited to pitch). Register now:   The Virtual Angels Network pitch event will be on Wednesday, September 25, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm PT (7:00 to 9:00 pm ET). ACCREDITED INVESTORS register and put this free event on your calendar using the following link: https://lnkd.in/g2GQcZHn You must register ahead of time.    Virtual Angels Network: We are a completely virtual, national network of angel investors. We particularly welcome new or less experienced angel investors. Members provide team support for individual accredited investors to make their own choices about each angel investment. We save you time, provide learning opportunities, leverage the wisdom of the team, and provide great angel investment opportunities. We are the best totally virtual angel network in North America.   virtualangels.net   Dan Delmar, Founder Virtual Angels Network John Sechrest 'Luni' Libes David Teten Wendy Maldonado Ellen Su-Marquez Gary R Ritner Michael Stein John Benjamin Paul Meehan Javier S. Mark Vreeke William Podd Juan Arango Jim Brisimitzis Elizabeth Cross Nichol Jeremy Zaretzky David S. Rose Jeff Brodlieb Barbara Von Gehr Dan Dooley Charles McDonald Qaizar Hassonjee Hugh Cullman Kevin Yu Selma Duhović Lawrence Lou Kathleen Carey Bob Crimmins Steve Trampe Aum Upadhyay Austin X. Dixon, M.D., M.B.A. Russell Chapman Sarah Studer Dana Sather Robinson Natalie Buford-Young Mark Klopp Ije D., JD, MBA, MPA/ID Peter Swan Ryan Nash Tom Leung #angelinvesting #angelinvestment #angelinvestors #angelinvestor #angels #angelfunding #pitchevent #pitch #seedinvestment #startupinvesting #startups

Alexandra Damsker has been a frequent contributor to Gust's founder support efforts. She's extremely sharp and extremely fun to learn from. If you're interested in learning about concrete #blockchain use cases there's probably not a more entertaining and engaging option than her event this Thursday! https://lnkd.in/eraH-hyH

Non-Technical founders- this is for you! Check out the Kabila x Ambitious Labs cofounder matching event on September 9th. For those of you in one of our founder acceleration programs (Gust’s Mission Control or the Gust x Peachscore Accelerator) you can save 20% on the registration fee!

Many founders fall into a trap of “always raising” while simultaneously trying to do all the other aspects of building an early stage startup. They treat fundraising as kind of a parallel track where they are taking opportunities as they come and often become frustrated that they never build momentum or get a commitment. Worse yet, the “other aspects” of the startup suffer since fundraising becomes an unpredictable distraction with existential weight that is hard to ignore—of course you’ll take a potential investor meeting out of the blue in place of whatever else you had planned that day. The reality of fundraising is that you're going to receive hundreds if not thousands of rejections from investors, which means you need the same volume of opportunities. Do the math: if you pitch just 1 or 2 investors per week you’re looking at a year+ to get one commitment. For most startups, one isn’t enough as one investor usually doesn’t fund the whole round, you’ll need a dozen+. Time kills all deals so you want many commitments in a short period of time. Check out this week's blog by Ryan Nash, 'If You're Serious About Fundraising, Trust The Process.' It's a great read, setting real expectations for founders looking to raise funds. Link below! 📚 ⤵

If you're an accredited investor and you want to learn more about how and why you should invest in overlooked/underrepresented/underdog founders, this event is for you. I will be interviewed by Techstars CEO, David Cohen, for the first time ever in my new capacity as Managing Partner of Kabila Ventures, which is launching out of the VC Lab venture accelerator for new fund managers. I can't wait to see your smiling faces. Let's grow.