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How To Scale Your Startup Far Beyond Organic Growth

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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). Invest in selective strategic alliances. Use external sourcing to fill in the non-critical gaps. Partial acquisition.

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Moonshots Capital Ramps Investment Pace With Lead On Two Investments

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Los Angeles- and Austin-based Moonshots Capital , the venture capital fund led by serial entrepreneur Kelly Perdew, is ramping its investment pace, with the first two formal investments out of its new fund. The two investments, both announced in January, were cyber-defense firm Threatcare , and bot detection developer New Knowledge.

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Hyundai Invests In Netradyne

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According to Hyundai CRADLE, Hyundai Motor Company's corporate venturing organization, it made an investment in Netradyne, but did not disclose how much it invested in the startup. Netradyne has previously raised funding from M12, the venture fund run by Microsoft, as well as Reliance Industries and Point72 Ventures.

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Graduway Gets Investment From Manhattan Beach's K1

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Graduway , a developer of software used for alumni engagement and career services management, has scored an investment from Manhattan Beach-based investor K1 Investment Management. Size and terms of the investment were not announced. K1 Investment Management says it invests in high growth, enterprise software companies.

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Several more real costs of taking outsider investments.

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The investor organization is granted the seat as long as the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position. Almost always, professional investors, including angel groups and venture capitalists, also require at least one seat on the corporate board.

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10 Tips To Ensure That Your New Venture Is Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors don’t invest in services startups. Here are some pragmatic tips on how to make your startup more scalable and investable: If you need investors, start with a scalable idea. These are more likely scalable and investable. Just because all your buddies think an idea is cool, that doesn’t mean it is scalable.

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6 Keys To Measuring Return On Investment In Marketing

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While his insights have come from large organizations, I give many of the same recommendations to every startup: Channel engagement performance. Revenue performance needs to be applied to each individual program, and also rolled up to show the overall performance per dollar invested. Return on investment for demand generation.

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