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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. Prioritize mergers and acquisitions early. Get support from credible industry groups and partners.

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10 Strategies For Success Long-Term As Well As Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. You need to be constantly assessing mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestitures. Hone your process for due diligence and integrating these new elements. Proactively prepare for downturns and recoveries.

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Scaling tips from John Chambers: Part 2 – Spotlight on acquisitions and managing crises

Cracking the Code

In this second extract from our roundtable, John and Joe share their playbooks for managing acquisitions as you scale and handling crises. What is your advice on when and how to make acquisitions? He has a very clear strategy and never makes an acquisition that doesn’t fit with it. Any acquisition creates uncertainty.

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Wonderist Agency Acquires Merger Labs

YoungUpstarts

Merger Labs, a full service digital marketing agency for middle market private equity and M&A professionals, is the first of its kind.The new firm’s success caught the attention of Wonderist Agency. Merger Labs will join Wonderist Agency in their newly renovated office, located in San Diego’s Point Loma neighborhood.

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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

Working with the media is required, both social as well as the press, through public relations and internal channels. Utilize mergers and acquisitions to accelerate growth. As you might imagine, even with the proper planning, mergers and acquisitions are difficult to pull off.

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The Top 10 Healthcare Governance Challenges and Trends for 2019

Board Effect

In the digital age, the scrutiny of the media relative to patient concerns, billing practices, product, and public safety, and consumer rights often reflects back on the healthcare board’s role, processes, diligence, reliance on executives, and the strength of board oversight. Mergers & Acquisitions and Governance.

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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio has spent some 20 years advising businesses at various stages in their development on what it takes to position themselves for growth – whether it’s through traditional transactional activities like management buyouts and mergers and acquisitions or via a public listing on a Canadian stock exchange.

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