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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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Why I invest outside the Silicon Valley

Hippoland

I think we are *on our way down* as an early stage startup hub unless we start to fix some of our problems around here. Intercom and Talkdesk, which both have European founders have HQs in San Francisco but also significant offices in Ireland and Portugal.

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Why I invest outside the Silicon Valley

Hippoland

I think we are *on our way down* as an early stage startup hub unless we start to fix some of our problems around here. Intercom and Talkdesk, which both have European founders have HQs in San Francisco but also significant offices in Ireland and Portugal.

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Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

ReadWriteStart

First up today was Antonio Lucena de Faria with ActionFlow from Portugal. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

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10 Digital Startup Conferences You Should Attend This Year

YoungUpstarts

This is particularly true in the early stages of a new venture when you may be a solopreneur or working with a very small team. Lisbon, Portugal. by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International. Founding a start-up is hard work, and sometimes feels like a solitary pursuit. SaaSMonster. Nov 5th – 8th, 2018.

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Battery gives back to Israeli entrepreneurial community with venture creation workshop

VC Cafe

Danny is an entrepreneur, investor and Brown University Professor of Entrepreneurship , and has recently held similar workshops in China, Egypt and Portugal. The workshop was conducted by Danny Warshay using the Socratic method.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness. It teaches you just how mundane the everyday existence of an early-stage startup is. Like pretty much everything, it takes practice.

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