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Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 22, 2021
This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Add basic partner contracts or alliances. Invest in selective strategic alliances. Partial acquisition.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 8, 2013
This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Add basic partner contracts or alliances. Invest in selective strategic alliances. Partial acquisition.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 1, 2012
This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Add basic partner contracts or alliances. Invest in selective strategic alliances. Partial acquisition.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. Nice sweep!
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 23, 2017
Also, make sure you know several partners at the VC firms who have invested in you because in tough times it helps to have very broad support. Ideally you’d find out which partners are super active and which are less active and who has the power to get deals approved and who struggles. Face time = winning.
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