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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

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. ” With that in mind… No: It’s a similar situation in the entrepreneurial funding space.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. I realize it’s important to be cross-platform, but wouldn’t it have been more beneficial for Viber to focus on a select few mobile operating systems and making sure the feature sets were consistent? Maybe someday.

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The increased cost of offshore development in India

BeyondVC

In the end, the companies that were doing the best job with development were the ones that had their own operations offshore. In our weekly partner’s meeting yesterday, we ended up in a discussion about the progression of offshore development in a variety of portfolio companies. I am already seeing that happen.