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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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Do most angel investors make money?

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That is because they are either new to the field, not taking it seriously as a financial business, not in it for the long haul, or not willing to continue investing until they have a fully diversified investment portfolio. For those people, returns tend to be flat to mostly negative. original post can be found on Quora @ : [link] *.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

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How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? If you do manage to threaten them, they’re more likely to buy you than sue you. The questions that arise most with respect to any category of IP at the earliest stages include: How will this affect our chances of getting funded on favorable terms ?

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What’s a typical day like for a full-time angel investor?

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If you mean someone investing mostly other people’s money through a seed fund, they are venture capitalists, and their days are spent like other VCs, meeting with prospective investments, mentoring portfolio companies, raising money from limited partners, negotiating deals, and so forth.

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What are the best innovations to come out of the financial industry in recent times?

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The result is that nearly $2 billion has been invested directly as primary investments into more companies than in total are traded on the NYSE and NASDAQ combined.

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What are some ways you can keep track of startups you are evaluating/diligencing/investing in?

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As a very active angel investor myself, I frankly can’t imagine how I could keep track of all the pieces without Gust.

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What are key issues for companies to keep in mind when obtaining investment from an Angel group?

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And make sure that financial reports are accompanied by a management letter explaining what’s actually happening. Communicate early, often and fully with ALL your investor members. If your term sheet calls for quarterly reports to investors, SEND THEM! original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *. Invested Interests'