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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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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

One group of angels was interested in investing up to $500,000 in our company, and another was willing to match those funds if the first group invested. Have they worked with companies who have raised multiple rounds of financing to start or grow? Let me paint the picture for you: We were about two months into our startup idea.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Paul’s track record as a serial entrepreneur was far more impressive than either Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick or Lyft co-founder Logan Green. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth. But unless Airbnb agreed to a merger, it had only two options.