Gautam Gupta
Gautam Gupta is a VC at General Catalyst Partners. Gautam focuses on investments in new and existing technology businesses.
His areas of special interest include financial services, enterprise IT, consumer services, and new media. Gautam is also actively involved with GoodData.
Marc-Henri Galletti
Founders Space Speaker & Advisor
Marc Galletti is a founder and Managing Director of Longitude Capital. He focuses on investments in medical devices and specialty pharmaceuticals, including drug-device combinations. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Galletti was a Senior Vice President of Pequot Ventures where he worked in the life sciences practice.
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My background is in small business management, as well as sales and marketing. However, I have a few business models I’d like to pursue taking advantage of. My challenge is that they each require the skills of a programmer (which I don’t have) to build either a very detailed website or an iPhone app, both of which would also require someone to update and maintain them. My question is can I form working relationships with individuals with these skills in order to start my business, perhaps with a working contract and not by forming a partnership, LLC or a Sub S Corp?
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I have a patent pending for an adult toy product. This product is like nothing on the market today, and I see it being very successful. How do I find investors/manufactures to help get my patent-pending idea to the shelf?
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My startup has a developed a digital solution that monetizes the social media content of branded individuals (pro athletes, entertainers, etc). We’ve targeted the sports market and have a proof of concept, partners in the sports space with access to top athletes and a team and a board of directors.
We’re currently pitching to angels to get the funding for a working prototype, but I’m also trying to get a client in the sports space. I want to pitch to advertisers. Especially those who spend money in the virtual world and social networking sports arenas. But i don’t know who to go to, marketers like Weiden+Kennedy or sports companies directly, like NIKE.
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I’ve heard it’s good to get lots of VCs interested so you can get a bidding war going. How many VCs should I be talking to simultaneously? Ten? Twenty?
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Should I quit my day job to ensure my startup gets off the ground?
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I’m looking for founders’ stock purchase agreements to use for my startup. Do you know where I can find any documents like these?
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How do I get my clients to trust me with larger projects? I run a software consulting practice. This includes consulting and staffing. In this really crowded space, I have actually managed to have a couple of clients who are very happy with my services and have been giving me work over the last 2 years. I would like to take this from an ad-hoc scenario to a consistent one. What I mean is: now that they know what I am capable of, I would like to approach my clients to entrust me with a complete project, which I could run with my team (rather than just me) and deliver. What’s the best way to approach this pitch?
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