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Set Your Online Reputation Before Someone Else Does

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There are several free and paid services, such as LinkedIn and Naymz , that allow you to manage your professional profile and measure your social reputation. These sites are often highly ranked in search engine results because they are heavily linked. This is especially useful in providing links to other positive and neutral content.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

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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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The Funding Gap

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An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. The resources required to start a company vary significantly , depending on the type of company and growth rate anticipated by the entrepreneur.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

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Investors are looking for your depth of talent, loyalty and commitment, strengths and weaknesses, teamwork, and management style. Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Product or service readiness.

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The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business

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An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Bartering technically means exchanging goods or services as a substitute for money.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

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” There is no law, other than the word of the manager on duty — who decrees that we could get in with the camera if we paid some ludicrous amount of money to procure a permit on the spot. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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What is the best way to connect with investors?

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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.), and read their detailed profiles to see if they would be a good match for your venture.