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Why savvy investors should focus on Kazakhstan (and other frontier markets)

The Next Web

Now, what if I said I’d been there myself, and that this same country had just completed a transcontinental railway, one that could move people and goods almost 2,000… This story continues at The Next Web.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

Setting up a clean, effective web site that lists companies seeking funding and provides accounts for investors to interact with them is not rocket science. 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.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

I’ll show you in a minute an email marketing version or a web version, but this is a simple restaurant. Last one in this context, a web forecast. What distribution, are we using gems or are we a web? I’m from Kazakhstan, but I guess business is business everywhere. How am I going to know? How will I know?”

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Israel Ranked 29th in Easiness of Doing Business According to the World Bank

VC Cafe

Mexican firms can file their taxes on the web, which is still impossible in most Latin American countries. Kazakhstan became the top reformer in 2010, leaping 15 places to 59th after making it quicker and cheaper to start a firm, and simplifying construction permits.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I’m just really sick of how Techcrunch propagates this fairy tale scenario of web startups but spinning this best-case scenario success story as being the guide for others’ success when they really comes down to a number of jackpot background factors. It really needs some rounded corners for that web 2.0