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Big Sky Capital: Investing in the Future of SaaS Startups

ReadWriteStart

In the fast-paced world of technology and venture capital, a new player has emerged, poised to significantly impact the startup ecosystem. Jahn Karsybaev and Adil Nurgozhin founded Big Sky Capital to support and invest in promising enterprise SaaS startups.

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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. Gust News David Rose Gust investors replicate startups' .” With that in mind… No: It’s a similar situation in the entrepreneurial funding space.

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5,500 miles for #BookingHacks All Women Edition

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I’ve been to a few hackathons as a participant ( Startup Weekend , iOS Dev Camp , Google’s HTML5 hackathon, EBay’s Skunkworks) and as a judge (Yahoo’s Hack Day, Yahoo’s Grace Hopper Conference hackathon). Portugal, Germany, Australia, Kazakhstan, and USA were represented on the team. The video below was shown by Janneke.

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5,500 miles for #BookingHacks All Women Edition

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I’ve been to a few hackathons as a participant ( Startup Weekend , iOS Dev Camp , Google’s HTML5 hackathon, EBay’s Skunkworks) and as a judge (Yahoo’s Hack Day, Yahoo’s Grace Hopper Conference hackathon). Portugal, Germany, Australia, Kazakhstan, and USA were represented on the team. The video below was shown by Janneke.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

He is the known guru in business planning, particularly for small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs, although he’s worked with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies as well. I’m not going to go into background, benefits, principles, what’s lean and how lean started in the 1930s and 40s and lean startup and all that.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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2013: The Year of Grit

Seeing Both Sides

And the so-called BRIC countries are forecasting tepid growth (we could rename them "ICK" if we added in Borat's home of Kazakhstan and dropped Brazil and Russia.). Meanwhile, in our little world of StartUp Land, things don't seem much brighter. Japan is in a decades-long tailspin.