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Organic Growth Startups Won’t Scale Competitively

Startup Professionals Musings

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM, Intel, and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. New management skills. Marty Zwilling.

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Why You Should Make Your Competitors Your Frenemies

Both Sides of the Table

Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations. Of course they’re software. When Enemies are Good.

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Entrepreneurs Need New Growth Models To Scale Up

Startup Professionals Musings

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. New management skills.

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Startups Should Fuel Growth By Acquisitions

Startup Professionals Musings

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. New management skills. Marty Zwilling.

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Explore Non-Standard Ways to Grow Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. New management skills.

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Have You Explored Every Business Growth Alternative?

Startup Professionals Musings

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM, Intel, and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. New management skills.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market.

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