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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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Why You Need to Take 50 Coffee Meetings

Both Sides of the Table

Are you looking for great engineers? Increase your deal flow. Yet most of us resist the coffee meetings seeing them as a distraction from: shipping our release, refining our business plan, working on our new website, etc. There’s a direct correlation to your future success. 5 / week = 250 / year. Recruiting.

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What is the best way to connect with investors?

Gust

I’d suggest that you browse through the Gust investor search engine for investment groups (and accelerators, incubators, business plan competitions, et al) that are relevant to your startup (by location, industry, type of organization, etc.), original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *. Gust News'

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6 Ways To Win Every Startup Competition You Enter

ReadWriteStart

Anyone entering a business plan competition should sign up for the mentorship. You get engineers and mathematicians who are starting companies and they get so bogged down in details they don’t do a good job of explaining what the business does. We’ve had media mentors who have gotten us press.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

ReadWriteStart

Next, Michael Issa, from the San Francisco, CA, pitched Quipu Applications , which is a cloud based business plan financial modeling application. Michael has almost 90,000 free users and is looking for a way to be in the deal flow of people looking for business plan software. efforts to get them. Discuss.

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6 Ways To Win Every Startup Competition You Enter

ReadWriteStart

Anyone entering a business plan competition should sign up for the mentorship. You get engineers and mathematicians who are starting companies and they get so bogged down in details they don’t do a good job of explaining what the business does. We’ve had media mentors who have gotten us press.

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6 Ways To Win Every Startup Competition You Enter

ReadWriteStart

Anyone entering a business plan competition should sign up for the mentorship. You get engineers and mathematicians who are starting companies and they get so bogged down in details they don’t do a good job of explaining what the business does. We’ve had media mentors who have gotten us press.