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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D