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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

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A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult. despite having lots of competitors.

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How to help your startup turn a profit in 4 simple steps

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Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Simply put, the return on investment on your product or service is LTV minus CAC. You can enlist a team of resellers to sell your product for you.

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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. Do you see Viber ever moving ‘up the stack’ and becoming a social network tying everything together, rather than a predominantly communications-focused service? We cannot let them down, so we need to release well-tested products.

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