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How To Scale Your Startup Far Beyond Organic Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell explain why in their classic book, “ Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma.” I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing.

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Startups Need Mergers And Acquisitions For Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell explain why in their book, “ Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma.” I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Marty Zwilling.

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Accelerate Startup Growth by Looking Outside the Box

Startup Professionals Musings

Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell explain why in their new book, “ Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma.” They outline the following framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

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Brad proudly described how the company successfully used thought leadership marketing to seed a marketplace in which companies can outsource their SEO campaigns to a legion of independent, third-party “optimizers.” In particular, Brad was impressed that, “Trada…educated people on how SEM works…and they were incredibly inclusive.

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Parenting Tips From Zappo’s Founder Tony Hsieh’s Mom And Dad - Startup Kids – Part V

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Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay), Founder & CEO of Zappos, discusses the litany of childhood jobs he created for himself in his book, Delivering Happiness. Despite its failure, the venture contributed to Tony’s entrepreneurial education. Deliver Happiness To Your Child – Encourage Them To Create A Job. I’ll sell them at 20?

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I paid up for the diploma but can’t say that I saw better results. I installed Windows 3.1

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

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Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries.