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How To Identify New Venture Assistance Organizations

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim.

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Are you the bottleneck in your organization?

Berkonomics

I recommend that you drop everything and buy this book, read it, and if you find it as powerful as I did, purchase copies for your management team, followed by planned discussions among team members about removing bottlenecks and improving efficiency throughout the organization. How dangerous is a bottleneck?

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How To Scale Your Startup Far Beyond Organic Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

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). Too much emphasis on organic growth can become a straightjacket that leads only to incremental innovation and limited horizons.

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YP Launches New Organic SEO Service

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Los Angeles-based YP , which offers up online directories and services to help businesses get their companies online, has lauched a new offering, called ypWebsite Pro. According to YP, the new product will help local businesses earn top rankings in their organic search results. YP runs the yellowpages.com site.

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Organize globally.

Berkonomics

There are people and companies everywhere willing to work by the hour, providing great skill sets as needed, able to be shed when the job is complete. So why not organize from the start around such a strategy and hire those able to demonstrate those organizational skills?

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PlayVS Acquires Canadian Esports Company

L.A. Business Journal

the Sawtelle-based organizer of high school and college esports programs reached a deal to acquire Vancouver-based GameSeta Esports Inc. Play Versus Inc.,

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Once Upon A Farm Harvests $3.1M For Organic Baby Food

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San Diego-based Once Upon A Farm , a maker of "cold-pressed, organic, non-GMO" baby food, has raised $3.1M in a Series A funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding came from Cambridge Companies SPG, Seed 2 Growth Fund, and Harbinger Ventures. The company was co-founded by Ari Raz (CEO) and Cassandra Curtis (COO).