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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

Setting up a clean, effective web site that lists companies seeking funding and provides accounts for investors to interact with them is not rocket science. 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.

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How to create a sustainable social media strategy for your startup

The Next Web

Zappos has found great success by keeping social media responsibilities horizontal and flexible. Zappos assumes everyone in the company is on social media and trusts them to participate in growing the brand. Prioritize social networks. As a startup, you’re working with limited resources and a lean business model.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

OSEO validation in turn makes early-stage startups eligible for a variety of support services and funding options. OSEO can be involved during very early stage activities, such as business plan creation and feasibility studies. Plyce : Feature-rich location-based social network. Web and mobile.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. Clark (RelayRides): Business school is very broad. Prince: Business History.

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How To Launch Your Startup As A Student In 7 Steps

YoungUpstarts

Write a business plan. After you’ve come up with answers concerning your future company and product, it’s high time to map out the business in a concrete and viable way. A business plan is a must for every startup. If you’ve never written anything like that, browse the Net for business plan samples and templates.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.