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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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Startup CEO (OnlyOnce- the book!), Part III – Pre-Order Now

OnlyOnce

Chapter 2: Defining and Testing the Story…Start Out By Admitting You’re Wrong, A Lean Business Plan Template, Problem, Solution, Key Metrics, Unique Value Proposition and Unfair Advantages, Channels, Customer Segments, Cost Structure and Revenue Streams. Chapter 3: Telling the Story to Your Investors…The Business Plan is Dead.

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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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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. I believe that “strategic&# money is an oxymoron.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. A corporate investor can provide diversity on the Board as someone who thinks differently from independent VCs. Corporate venture funds are often referred to as ‘strategicinvestors because of the unique benefits they bring to the table.

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A Socially-responsible, Triple-bottom line Taco Shop: SMB Tech Talk from Chaia

Hunter Walker

BS: We are active on all of the social media channels above, save for Tumblr. HotSchedules – a restaurant management platform for scheduling employees, plus more. Asana – a project management tool to help our team track our work and current and past projects. Revel – our iPad-based point of sale.

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A Socially-responsible, Triple-bottom line Taco Shop: SMB Tech Talk from Chaia

Hunter Walker

BS: We are active on all of the social media channels above, save for Tumblr. HotSchedules – a restaurant management platform for scheduling employees, plus more. Asana – a project management tool to help our team track our work and current and past projects. Revel – our iPad-based point of sale.

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