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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Since late September, seven small teams of students from diverse academic backgrounds – computer science, law, engineering, business and more – have been working closely with mentors from the State Department to tackle difficult problems vexing Foggy Bottom. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Since late September, seven small teams of students from diverse academic backgrounds – computer science, law, engineering, business and more – have been working closely with mentors from the State Department to tackle difficult problems vexing Foggy Bottom. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Brazil is using the law to push innovation, but here’s how it can do more

The Next Web

The government should also send Brazilian executives, engineers, and entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley, not just academic students. An example of a great startup incentive took place in Portugal, where tax reductions were offered to companies that hired unemployed workers or students. Enact more tax breaks and funds for startups.

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5 Famous Introverted Leaders And What You Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

Rowling lost her mother, moved to Portugal, and began (and ended) a marriage that left her with a daughter to raise on her own. In his biography, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon he shares: Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me – they’re shy and they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists.

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Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

ReadWriteStart

First up today was Antonio Lucena de Faria with ActionFlow from Portugal. Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items.

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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. Having an engineering or scientific background is what makes you more attractive for investment, not an MBA. The good part of failure.

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