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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). M&A is “buying” resources for growth. Overreliance on acquisitions drains resources and de-motivates internal teams.

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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). M&A is “buying” resources for growth. Overreliance on acquisitions drains resources and de-motivates internal teams.

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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). M&A is “buying” resources for growth. Overreliance on acquisitions drains resources and de-motivates internal teams.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

Out of 41 companies who submitted their software for approval, only three were accepted--us, McGraw Hill, and Peoples Education. On the SAT/ACT side, in classroom tutoring, we have used our technology to automate the back office. It might not be problems in geometry, it might be because students can't add fractions in algebra.

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

Both Sides of the Table

Or riding a crazy party bus and sitting next to Aaron Batalion the co-founder & CTO of Living Social. Office Space. I always love visiting companies because you can tell so much about the character of the company by spending time in their offices. We hung out a lot together a dinners and educational events.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is a founder of Strengths Doctors, a consulting firm which helps leaders design energizing work environments. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule.