David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, real estate developer, author and keynote speaker who has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies. He has been described by Forbes as "New York's Archangel", by BusinessWeek as a "world conquering entrepreneur", by Crain's New York Business as "the father of angel investing in New York", and by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of Silicon Alley". He is the New York Times best selling author of Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups, and The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business.
From his initial involvement with the first online communities in the 1970s, through founding one of the first personal computer training companies in the 1980s, one of the first wireless data information networks in the 1990s, the first global angel investing platform in the 2000s, and the first institutional real estate marketplace in the 2020s, David has been at the forefront of innovation in business and technology.
Among the fields in which he has been actively involved as an executive, board member or investor are: real estate technology, capital markets, Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, SaaS platforms, wireless communications, hospitality, consumer electronics, crowdsourcing, international finance, social networking, space tourism, user-generated content, online video, mobile network security, biological testing, electronic music, citizen journalism, out-of-home advertising, fiber-optic networking, concierge medicine, online marketing, interactive voice response, and many others.
As an entrepreneurial executive himself, David is the founder and CEO of the US Real Estate Market, which is changing the way institutions invest in commercial real estate; and founder and Executive Chairman of Gust, which operates the world's largest online platform and community for entrepreneurs and early stage investors. Gust is used by over one million entrepreneurs in 193 countries to connect with tens of thousands of accredited investors.
He is also Managing Director of Rose Tech Ventures; Founding General Partner of True Global Ventures; Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels; and Founding Track Chair for Finance and Entrepreneurship at Singularity University, the global thinktank on exponential technologies. David serves as Chairman of the Board of artificial intelligence pioneer Thinkable, and Chairman of the Board of BookitNGo, the international platform bringing blockchain NFTs to the hospitality industry.
David is well known in the business startup community for discovering and mentoring high-potential entrepreneurs, and has been profiled by BusinessWeek as "The Pitch Coach" for his ability to help CEOs perfect their fundraising skills. He is a regular speaker at the TED conferences, and his TEDtalk on How to Pitch a VC has been viewed over a million times. With an online following of over 150,000 founders and investors and 75 million+ views, David's writings are standard references around the world. He lectures at business schools including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, Stanford, and Stevens, and was named Mentor of the Year by NYU's Stern School of Business.
Prior to founding AirMedia Corporation in 1988, for which he served as CEO for over ten years, his career included over fifteen years in real estate development, government, teaching and urban planning. David was co-founder and Chairman of The Computer Classroom and Vice President, Development at Rose Associates, Inc. Earlier, he served as Deputy Director of the New York office of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
A native New Yorker, David has a BA in Urban Affairs from Yale University, an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a D. Eng. (hc) from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a graduate of the New York City public school system and Horace Mann High School. He is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University and a member of the Entrepreneurship Advisory Boards of Columbia Business School and Yale University. David can be followed online @davidsrose
David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, real estate developer, author and keynote speaker who has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies. He has been described by Forbes as "New York's Archangel", by BusinessWeek as a "world conquering entrepreneur", by Crain's New York Business as "the father of angel investing in New York", and by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of Silicon Alley". He is the New York Times best selling author of Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups, and The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business.
From his initial involvement with the first online communities in the 1970s, through founding one of the first personal computer training companies in the 1980s, one of the first wireless data information networks in the 1990s, the first global angel investing platform in the 2000s, and the first institutional real estate marketplace in the 2020s, David has been at the forefront of innovation in business and technology.
Among the fields in which he has been actively involved as an executive, board member or investor are: real estate technology, capital markets, Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, SaaS platforms, wireless communications, hospitality, consumer electronics, crowdsourcing, international finance, social networking, space tourism, user-generated content, online video, mobile network security, biological testing, electronic music, citizen journalism, out-of-home advertising, fiber-optic networking, concierge medicine, online marketing, interactive voice response, and many others.
As an entrepreneurial executive himself, David is the founder and CEO of the US Real Estate Market, which is changing the way institutions invest in commercial real estate; and founder and Executive Chairman of Gust, which operates the world's largest online platform and community for entrepreneurs and early stage investors. Gust is used by over one million entrepreneurs in 193 countries to connect with tens of thousands of accredited investors.
He is also Managing Director of Rose Tech Ventures; Founding General Partner of True Global Ventures; Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels; and Founding Track Chair for Finance and Entrepreneurship at Singularity University, the global thinktank on exponential technologies. David serves as Chairman of the Board of artificial intelligence pioneer Thinkable, and Chairman of the Board of BookitNGo, the international platform bringing blockchain NFTs to the hospitality industry.
David is well known in the business startup community for discovering and mentoring high-potential entrepreneurs, and has been profiled by BusinessWeek as "The Pitch Coach" for his ability to help CEOs perfect their fundraising skills. He is a regular speaker at the TED conferences, and his TEDtalk on How to Pitch a VC has been viewed over a million times. With an online following of over 150,000 founders and investors and 75 million+ views, David's writings are standard references around the world. He lectures at business schools including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, Stanford, and Stevens, and was named Mentor of the Year by NYU's Stern School of Business.
Prior to founding AirMedia Corporation in 1988, for which he served as CEO for over ten years, his career included over fifteen years in real estate development, government, teaching and urban planning. David was co-founder and Chairman of The Computer Classroom and Vice President, Development at Rose Associates, Inc. Earlier, he served as Deputy Director of the New York office of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
A native New Yorker, David has a BA in Urban Affairs from Yale University, an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a D. Eng. (hc) from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a graduate of the New York City public school system and Horace Mann High School. He is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University and a member of the Entrepreneurship Advisory Boards of Columbia Business School and Yale University. David can be followed online @davidsrose
Everything You Think You Know...Is Wrong!
This session will completely reset the way participants view the world, upending their existing understanding in light of the exponential changes in technology that affect every aspect of life. In this 45–90-minute keynote session, the founding Track Chair of SU’s Finance and Entrepreneurship program will walk participants through an eye-opening journey. It will explore why their intuitive perspective no longer works and how the latest developments and exponential technologies are...
No More Companies, No More Jobs...On the Way to a World Without Work
Optimistic futurists such as Ray Kurzweil claim that new technologies will create new jobs in an ever-growing virtuous circle. Pessimists such as the late Kurt Vonnegut project a dystopian future of pandemic unemployment. In this thought-provoking 45-90 minute presentation, David S. Rose will present a third vision, developed during his work as Track Chair for Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Economics at Singularity University: that technological development is moving us to a 'post...
How to Start a Startup
This program for aspiring high-growth entrepreneurs delivers specific guidance on business creation in an era of exponential technological growth. It walks participants from an idea, through how to start a business designed to grow rapidly, all the way through getting funded by investors, and eventually exiting to a larger company or through an IPO. Lead by the founding Chair of Singularity University’s Entrepreneurship program famous for his dictum that “any company designed for success...
Startup Fundraising 101
As a startup founder, is your venture the type that angels fund? How do you know if you should be looking for grants, VCs, or other funding sources instead? And if angels are the right type of investors, how do you find them, identify the best matches for your specific startup, craft your pitch, and close the deal? This presentation, which can be delivered as a 45-90 minute keynote or 2-4 hour workshop, will introduce the startup funding landscape, cover trends in angel investing and...
Pitching and Presentation Boot Camp
In this 90-minute workshop, participants will learn what it takes to get venture capitalists and angel investors to open up their checkbooks to fund a new venture. As the Founder of New York Angels, David S. Rose hears more than 500 pitches a year, and routinely sees otherwise great companies turned away because their fundraising pitches completely missed their target. This special coaching session for high-growth entrepreneurs will walk participants through exactly how to prepare and...
The Essence of Entrepreneurship
Starting a new venture is simultaneously the most exhilarating and terrifying occupation on earth, and entrepreneurs are the passionate, driven, engines of the world's economic development. In this inspirational, educational, 45-minute keynote, investor and serial entrepreneur David S. Rose, founder of Singularity University’s Entrepreneurship program, will share with participants stories from the more than 100 companies he has founded or funded. He will discuss the reality of...
All About Angel Investing
In this presentation designed for high-net-worth audiences, participants will learn how individual angel investors can see annualized returns of 20%, 30%, even 40%, on their early investments into new, high-tech, companies. David S. Rose, one of America's leading early stage angel investors, and the founder of Gust.com, the industry's official platform connecting investors with startups, will reveal the secrets behind getting in on the ground floor in the next Big Thing. He will...
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University of Florida Innovate
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H.L., Assistant Director, University of Florida Innovate
Verified @ufl.eduDavid S. Rose was the keynote speaker at Standing Innovation, a University of Florida Innovate annual event attended by over 700 innovators. His high-speed keynote sessions about fundraising and pitching were fantastic, with an incredible amount of information and many anecdotal examples to help entrepreneurs raise capital. David’s book signing and Q&A lunch were also a big hit. Several of our entrepreneurs met with David one-on-one, and were delighted with his insightful feedback, tips, and in-depth questions that gave them valuable material to bring back to their start-ups. A heartfelt ‘Thank You David’ for a wonderful visit!
Wharton DC Innovation Summit
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R.R., Conference Chair, Wharton DC Innovation Summit
Verified @gmail.comDavid S. Rose was an outstanding speaker for our annual conference on investing and innovation. He was very well prepared to speak on entrepreneurship and angel investing to a group of highly successful and influential people in Washington, DC. His speech covered a wide range of issues relevant to our attendees, and he gave with it charm and wit. The attendees are very knowledgeable, and were hoping he would have gone on longer than the hour we had allotted for his keynote. He was a delight to work with and the event organizers agreed that he was by far the best keynote speaker we have had. I would highly recommend him for any event.
New York University - Stern School of Business
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C.F., Director of Entrepreneurship, New York University - Stern School of Business
Verified @stern.nyu.eduDavid's talk could be subtitled "The 60-minute MBA". In less than an hour, he covered everything entrepreneurs need to know about launching and scaling their venture concepts.Through the use of cautionary tales, memorable anecdotes and battled-tested advice, he delivered a sobering yet uplifting message about entrepreneurship that had the room enthralled.
Kavoo Airlines
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R.H., CEO, Kavoo Airlines
Verified @flykavoo.comDavid possesses the unique ability to engage and inspire even the most sophisticated entrepreneurial leaders with fresh content never seen before and a knack for making the difficult seem simple and the impossible your next action step. You don't want him to stop.
Likeable
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D.K., CEO, Likeable
Verified @likeable.comDavid S. Rose got me thinking about topics that I'm still talking about weeks later. His insightful view of the world and impactful delivery left a long-lasting impression on me.
The Future Media
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S.S., Founder, The Future Media
Verified @relatedrisk.comDavid is so smart it's stupid! He makes the complex world of investing and being invested in simple through his extensive experience, uncanny intuition, and powerful insights. I realized more actionable value from 75 minutes with David than any other days-long workshops I've attended.
EDVenture
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E.D., CEO, EDVenture
Verified @edventure.comDavid S. Rose is a master at turning presentations from “before” to “after.” I wish more of the start-ups I hear making presentations used his services!
About.com
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S.K., Founder, About.com
Verified @kurnit.comBad presentations kill great young companies. David has a knack for turning and tuning presentations and presenters to show them in the best light.
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