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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.)

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

My wife, Ann, and I took a trip this past spring to visit Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Russia. 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.

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Twitter Link Roundup #139 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

75 Professional Free Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link]. Fresh Free High Quality Fonts Created In 2012 – [link]. Fresh Free High Quality Fonts Created In 2012 – [link]. 10 Great Web Designer Portfolio Websites – [link]. 27 Controversial Print Ads – [link].

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

She served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012. Particularly given that both China and Russia are going to be leveraging these technologies in ways that are really counter to our Western values in terms of surveillance systems and without respect for personal privacy and all kinds of things.

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Nicolas Brusson discusses BlaBlaCar’s journey from French success story to global winner

Cracking the Code

We had a good product that worked well in France, so we expanded it across Europe between 2011 and 2014, before moving to a more global scale, launching in Russia, Mexico, and India. What do you wish you’d known back in 2012 when you got the first $10 million investment from Accel? Pick your co-founders and investors carefully.

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