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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

However, there is actually much more to Gust than is apparent on the surface, or even from the viewpoint of a current user (either entrepreneur or investor). This is a completely insane and complex vision (but what the heck, we’re entrepreneurs!) despite having lots of competitors.

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

The Next Web

If I told you that you could travel back in time, to the end of the nineteenth century, and invest in a country that was recently war-torn, and in great transition, would you do it?

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

VC Cafe

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. However, it still takes 81 days to export from Kazakhstan compared to 5 in Estonia. India could be 55 places higher if it had consistency of service across its states.

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Big Sky Capital: Investing in the Future of SaaS Startups

ReadWriteStart

Additionally, they prioritized investing in immigrant founders, drawing from their own experience as immigrants from Kazakhstan. This approach allowed them to gain valuable insights into the challenges faced by startups in the early stages and further fueled their desire to provide comprehensive support to entrepreneurs.

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All You Need To Know About Manufacturing, Sourcing, And Importing Products From China, With Craig Ford

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

YARO: Hello, this is Yaro Starak and welcome to an Entrepreneur''s Journey Podcast Interview. CRAIG: Well, export advisory is a large part of my background and in our last four-year contract we supported Queensland businesses to export more than $20 million in export sales to overseas markets. You help with importing and exporting.

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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. You do in small business, in startups, you survive on focus, and my shortcut to strategy that I like is think about identify, market and business offering.

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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.). What's an ambitious, hard-charging entrepreneur to do? When I first learned how to value options in the stock market, a light bulb went off. One word: grit.