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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.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 4, 2010
We wanted to be able to invest in our software and our learning tools. Out of 41 companies who submitted their software for approval, only three were accepted--us, McGraw Hill, and Peoples Education. It might not be problems in geometry, it might be because students can't add fractions in algebra.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
Spend time building investor relationship long before you raise money. . By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Each of your angels or seed investors may have 20-30 investments. Assigns tasks. But seriously.
InfoChachkie
JULY 14, 2011
This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. You’re right.
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.”.
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