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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

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When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.” despite having lots of competitors.

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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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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

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It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. (Instagram is a textbook example.) Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description.

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Do Angel Investors Care About University Degrees?

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And designers, as another example … the designer for hardware and consumer tech is definitely enhanced by the degree, especially engineering; but in web and software, not so much.

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What is the worst startup pitch ever?

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A Software-as-a-Service company using open source and cloud computing technologies. Software will be created in these 6 different areas: Browser-based operating system. Web-based Productivity Applications. Web-based Messaging & Collaboration Application. Web-based Database Management System. Contestant B.

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5 Things I Look when Investing in a Startup

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I don’t mean necessarily geographically close to me or conceptually close to my experience (software, web, etc.), I want something that can continue to sell in volume even while we all sleep. Closeness. but one or the other.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

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This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Assign real value to intellectual property.

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