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Determine if your company is ready for and worthy of investment. Ask yourself these questions from David Rose, Managing Partner of Rose Tech Ventures, and founder of Gust, an online network for start-ups and investors

Determine if your company is ready for and worthy of investment. Ask yourself these questions from David Rose, Managing Partner of Rose Tech Ventures, and founder of Gust, an online network for start-ups and investors.

The New York City company describes itself as "people-powered antivirus for bills." Personal finance security start-up BillGuard, which describes itself as "people-powered antivirus for bills," has closed $10 million in second-round financing. The New York City-based company scans credit card bills for unauthorized, wrong, or deceptive charges using a combination of algorithms, complaints posted on the Internet about scams, and feedback from users (the last bit being the "people-powered" part of the equation).

"You've got people saying, 'I'm here,' whatever 'here' means. 'Here' may mean I'm at a restaurant or a ball game," says James D.

By connecting conservation with wealth, Blue Ventures has found a way to convince fishing communities in the developing world that saving fish doesn't mean starvation--it means getting rich. There are not, in fact, always more fish in the sea. That we have overfished our oceans to near the point of no return has been rehashed over and over now for years.

University of Miami Taught by: Outside advisers Some entrepreneurship classes live in business schools. Some live in engineering schools