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Reflections on 2020: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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Two new additions to our portfolio companies stand out in particular: NextCar (Scott Painters latest disruptive LA-based automotive market play) and Transmute (Karyl Fowlers Austin-based supply chain identity and credentialing platform). This ability to do more with less will pay dividends post pandemic as we focus on growth.

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7 Strategies For Brand Leadership Through Influencers

Startup Professionals Musings

At the very least, big brands like IBM and McDonalds still take decades to achieve influence, whereas people have become influencers with only a few months of work. Mark Zuckerberg became a major influencer of social networking by first allowing only students from Harvard on his platform, and highlighting the uniqueness of Facebook.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. There are more than nine million backers on Indiegogo that engage and support entrepreneurs in over 19,000 campaigns on the platform each month. iFundWomen (New York, NY). iFundWomen (New York, NY).

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Selling your business? Find the emotional buyer

Berkonomics

Most investment bankers will coach you into helping them find you a strategic buyer, knowing that such sales are quicker, often less focused upon the small warts of a business, and yield higher prices than financial sales. My buyer-candidate had previously licensed our firm as a distributor, a value-added reseller for its hardware.

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There are three kinds of business buyers.

Berkonomics

Most investment bankers will coach you into helping them find you a strategic buyer, knowing that such sales are quicker, often less focused upon the small warts of a business, and yield higher prices than financial sales. My buyer-candidate had previously licensed our firm as a distributor, a value-added reseller for its hardware.

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