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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. You need a stable customer base with an automatically renewing revenue stream, such as the subscription model.

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Beware of Premature Merge Elation

Both Sides of the Table

How much dilution should I take for it?&# My friend’s company was pre-revenue. My recommendation to our lead partner looking at the deal, “Pass. I lived through the era of companies doing premature mergers. That’s why immature teams spend so much time on mergers. A merger is not the panacea.

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Organic Growth Startups Won’t Scale Competitively

Startup Professionals Musings

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. Fresh customer base. Economies of scale.

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Leading Visual Content Creation App Developer Lightricks Raises $130 Million Series D

The Startup Magazine

The $130 million Series D investment round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. Audiences constantly consume information through the different content channels daily. The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks.

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Entrepreneurs Need New Growth Models To Scale Up

Startup Professionals Musings

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. Fresh customer base. Economies of scale.

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How Winning Startups Tackle Tough Growth Constraints

Startup Professionals Musings

But in my experience as a startup advisor, too many entrepreneurs get stuck there, and always find excuses for not really exploring mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and alliance alternatives. Of course, they all prefer cash, but some may work for future revenue or startup equity. Investigate strategic alliance alternatives.

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Startups Should Fuel Growth By Acquisitions

Startup Professionals Musings

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. Fresh customer base. Economies of scale.