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Linking Around On A Sunday Morning

Feld Thoughts

a Site Finds Love in India : Ignighter was in the TechStars Boulder 2008 class. Daniel, Adam, and Kevin have pivoted around a few times and ended up creating the fastest growing dating site in India – from their office in Manhattan. I’d also encourage every VC and angel investor to read it.

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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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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. After Meebo launched, his friends helped him get the word out and soon they were getting coverage as far a China and India.

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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

ReadWriteStart

But the right funding strategy for her is $900,000-$1 million, potentially from angel investors or small funds. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Well, it turns out that with about $900,000 and 12 months, Siobhan can get to paying customers.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. I always knew that I would someday start my own company.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

ReadWriteStart

First up, Sumit Jha from New Delhi, India, presented EduMark , a real estate education program for the nascent Indian market that Sumit is already selling successfully, and wondering how to take to the next level of scale. On to today's roundtable, we had five businesses, all of which, I believe, can be built to become sustainable companies.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?

ReadWriteStart

I'd like to hear from venture capitalists, angel investors, incubators, and accelerators on this topic. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. CricketWeekly. Discuss.

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