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What do VCs look for?

I'm writing an article on a San Francisco startup competition featuring the young Japanese entrepreneur finalists (eventbrite info here) and was wondering what investors and judges are looking for ...
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Do people consider gamification a feature, business concept, or strategy?

I took a course on gamification it cleared a lot of thing up but I'm still confuse. A gamified app or website has to be build from ground up through the lens of a game designer. So, I think is a major ...
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Start up competitors and user base

I'm a qualified software engineer and I've been reading some articles about start ups. Y combinator Coming up with Start Up Ideas How to get start up ideas 12 Rules For Building Your First ...
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Low Barriers to entry

I am looking to start a service business that has very low barriers to entry and I am concerned with competition. Has anyone had a similar problem or concern? If so, what have you done to overcome ...
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I have a startup that is almost ready and I'm finding it hard to get companies on board, what can I do?

I know this question has been asked many times before in a plethora of different ways, but I couldn't find anything to help me out, so my apologies if this comes off as a duplicate of another question ...
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How to ensure success before launching?

Dharmesh Shah made mention about talking people to people who are interested in your domain about your product before releasing your idea. he talks about it in this video over at mixergy. Excellent ...
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How do i know if the idea i have in mind for startup is not being worked on by another stealth startup company

I have an idea in my mind, but how do i know if someother company is already working on a similar idea (espeically in stealth mode) or worse if i start working on my idea and half way through if the ...