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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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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. The goal of the sprint was validating the demand in the “IT integrators” vertical in 5 European countries: Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spain and England.

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12 Questions: Meet Xavier (Spain)

crowdSPRING Blog

Xavier lives and works in Madrid, Spain. Any project that involves different materials from early stages. Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and North Coast are the major creative and design centers in Spain. Related posts: 12 Questions: Meet Rod MacGregor (Spain). Please tell us about yourself. Making nanorobots?

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10 ways you’ll probably f**k up your startup — Spook Studio — Medium

I recently developed a more human framework for early-stage startups to define their startup DNA and lay some foundations for a sustainable business. Too much talking, not enough listening Perhaps it’s because funding is so important to early-stage startups that they soon get good at perfecting their sales pitch.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

This round was led by Kevin Spain from Emergence. Investors: Emergence Capital Partners (Kevin Spain), OpenAir Ventures (Ron LeMay) , with existing investors Steamboat Ventures, Voyager Capital. That wouldn’t surprise me. He’s a guy that I’ve always liked. Happy to see him get this deal done. 7mm in Series B.

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What’s it Like Being a VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I went to Ibiza in Spain with my wife and in-laws before we were married. As a VC I spend tons of time with companies at an early stage in their business. You get on a plane at a moment’s notice because a senior customer agreed to meet you. You call in from your vacation because you’ve had a service outage.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

It was the closest I could get to Spain. I didn’t have someone willing to offer me a job in Spain. I thought if I could live and work in Spain I could become bilingual, but I never got the opportunity. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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