Gust

article thumbnail

Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)

Belarus 107
article thumbnail

A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

I enjoyed giving a short interview on BBC radio the following morning, after which a dozen Halo members participated in a workshop I led on portfolio strategy and post-investment relationships. We finished our first full day at a dinner with Halo , the Northern Ireland Business Angel Network (Alan Watts).

Community 121
article thumbnail

Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? In the mean time, best wishes for a safe, happy and healthy 2012. The questions that arise most with respect to any category of IP at the earliest stages include: How will this affect our chances of getting funded on favorable terms ? Barriers to entry ?