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How To Scale Your Startup Far Beyond Organic Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs are paranoid about the partnership approach, and think that M&A is only an alternative for large companies who are flush with cash. Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources. M&A is “buying” resources for growth.

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Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures, On Mental Health And Investing In Founders

socalTECH

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

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Looking At Startups By The Rules Of Natural Selection

Startup Professionals Musings

The smart ones have a plan for how they intend to spend these resources, and measure themselves against the plan. Talent – Every startup needs talents to give the company value. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective.

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Startups Need Mergers And Acquisitions For Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs are paranoid about the partnership approach, and think that M&A is only an alternative for large companies who are flush with cash. Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources. M&A is “buying” resources for growth.

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Accelerate Startup Growth by Looking Outside the Box

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs are paranoid about the partnership approach, and think that M&A is only an alternative for large companies who are flush with cash. Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources. M&A is “buying” resources for growth.

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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

Both Sides of the Table

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

It needs to be funded to be successful. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. Some places you can find programmers locally: In your company or other companies. What do you do if you don't know the size?

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