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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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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. A lot of companies used angel investors money to get off the ground and subsequently turned to VCs for following rounds. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. A lot of companies used angel investors money to get off the ground and subsequently turned to VCs for following rounds. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Ruby specialists. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner). And here is another pretty comprehensive list of co-working spaces in town. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Raizlabs – Mobile Development.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

Ruby specialists. Andy Payne – OpenMarket, Fansnap, angel investor ( blog , @payne92 ). Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor ( blog , @billwarner ). Beautiful space in the South Boston Innovation District. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3. Places to Hang.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in. → Learn More. 2011 Holiday.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Sure you have Ruby, Python, many others, but PHP is winning because it’s so accessible to newbies, and it manipulates the server side continuously, allowing e-commerce, social, geolocation and other apps. I’ve had 7 jobs in Silicon Valley in software development companies, but 6 of the 7 were in business development. What next?