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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). Add basic partner contracts or alliances. Invest in selective strategic alliances. Partial acquisition.

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Startups Need Mergers And Acquisitions For 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). Add basic partner contracts or alliances. Invest in selective strategic alliances. Partial acquisition.

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Accelerate Startup Growth by Looking Outside the Box

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). Add basic partner contracts or alliances. Invest in selective strategic alliances. Partial acquisition.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

link] [link] Posted byTony Karrer at 5:33 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

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.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

Both Sides of the Table

You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. But “he didn’t have the budget to hire a developer until he had raised money!&#. Should she take a chance and potentially ruffle feathers? He looked stunned.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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