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6 Ways To Win By Creative Partnering With Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

A strategic partnership, negotiated with a win-win attitude, can accomplish growth faster and cheaper than either could do alone. Similar companies, even though competitors, usually face economies of scale and overlapping distribution channels. Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates.

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Startups Must Embrace Coopetition For Rapid Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

A strategic partnership, negotiated with a win-win attitude, can accomplish growth faster and cheaper than either could do alone. Similar companies, even though competitors, usually face economies of scale and overlapping distribution channels. Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . We never seek any rights to give Amex preferential treatment at the time of a potential acquisition.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. AppDynamics.

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