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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

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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. There are literally hundreds of platforms currently operating that connect investors and startups, and there have been at least a hundred others that have come and gone.

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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 ? Developing Web content (both the design and underlying code) (copyright, trademark). 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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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

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Intermix had acquired their previous online marketing startup, ResponseBase, and they remained a cohesive group.

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What is it like to lose all of your investors’ money?

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Over the past decade literally dozens of my portfolio companies have bitten the dust, losing all of their investors’ money. Indeed, that’s one of the reasons I agreed to host the web series Second Chance, when Sprint and MSN asked me to do it. As a matter of fact, some of them went on to invest in later companies of mine.

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