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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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Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness)

crowdSPRING Blog

The survey indicated that the VCs surveyed felt the best prospects were for entrepreneurs in emerging markets like China, Brazil, and India. It has become a cliche that startups are the engines of job growth in the US, and this is for a very good reason: they are. Startups will sustain domestic employment.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Investors And Incubators Need To Look At Pre-Incubation

ReadWriteStart

On July 1, 2006, commenting on the Indian startup scenario, I had written a blog post called Too Much Money, Too Few Deals. Today, the Indian scenario has improved greatly, but still the issue of lack of a mature deal flow remains. I look forward to working further with Kevin on building this business. Healthcare e-Market.

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

ReadWriteStart

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. Finally, Harsha Mukherjee from Hyderabad, India, pitched Ekjaa Foundation , yet another crowd sourced funding exchange for NGO and social entrepreneurship. efforts to get them. Ekjaa Foundation.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With MAD Incubator, Malaysia

ReadWriteStart

This, we believe, will create a strong downstream deal flow for all of you - incubators, angel investors, and VCs. I will be traveling in India over the next several days and doing live roundtables in three cities: Chennai (April 9) , Mumbai (April 16) , and Pune (April 17). From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

I've not studied them yet, but at first glance I can see some really slick technologies being transferred into a Newco with these basic terms, and funding a lot more deal flow. it is one of pdf search engines (for example [link]. I hope similar initiatives existed for startups in India. This is great!

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. Avataar Ventures invests exclusively in companies which fit these criteria: “$15 Million + in Annual Recurring Revenues; Strong Tech-Led B2B & SaaS Companies; Core Operations in India/ South East Asia; Open to Active Partnering.” (Rare exceptions to $6M with extreme traction.).