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Finding a strategic partner, investor or buyer

Berkonomics

Get organized. And strengthen that at the expense of other areas of your enterprise which may easily be outsourced or reduced in scope. Even a five-minute introductory call to the CEO with no agenda works for later name recognition. Finding your strategic partner, investor or business buyer is not something you do haphazardly.

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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

As a summary, crowdfunding today can mean any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model. Concurrently, I am seeing an upswing in the number of entrepreneurs and startups, with the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the new focus on entrepreneurship in every university and every community development organization.

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10 Tactics To Shorten Your Race To Cash-Flow Positive

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m a big fan of first creating a real business plan, with five-year financial projections, to convince yourself and investors that you have done your homework. The real value of these groups is the relationships you can build with key people who can help you later, as well as the early learning from the incubator organization.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Even with this, crowdfunding today means any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model. Concurrently, I am seeing an upswing in the number of entrepreneurs and startups, with the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the new focus on entrepreneurship in every university and every community development organization.

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How Winning Startups Tackle Tough Growth Constraints

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s called organic growth , and everybody does it. The organic solution is to hire more people, spend more money, and ramp up your focus. Evaluate outsourcing as a quick solution to break the constraint. Of course, it’s important to maintain a balance of organic growth versus the more creative approaches.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. What about outsourcing? For me outsourcing in a pure startup is the kiss of death. First, many people confuse outsourcing and offshoring. Been there. What about offshoring?

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

socalTECH

It''s up 30 to 40 percent, and we had 2 million visits in May, all organic. Evan Britton: There are two things we''ve done with FamousBirthdays that has fueld our organic growth. We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great. Six months ago we only had 650,000 visitors.

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