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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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

ReadWriteStart

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ I said we had a lot of deal flow. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Joining A Startup As CFO Is A Good Path To The Top

Startup Professionals Musings

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. A few years ago it was all the rage to have MBAs in the top finance role. Also you want someone who can stretch your funding by knowing which expenses to cut without harming your business.

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7 Reasons Why Startup CFOs Become CEO Candidates

Startup Professionals Musings

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. A few years ago it was all the rage to have MBAs in the top finance role. Also you want someone who can stretch your funding by knowing which expenses to cut without harming your business.

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Joining A Startup As CFO Is A Good Path To The Top

Gust

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. A few years ago it was all the rage to have MBAs in the top finance role. Also you want someone who can stretch your funding by knowing which expenses to cut without harming your business.

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Seven Attributes of a Startup Dream Team CFO

Startup Professionals Musings

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. A few years ago it was all the rage to have MBAs in the top finance role. Also you want someone who can stretch your funding by knowing which expenses to cut without harming your business.

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