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6 Ways To Win By Creative Partnering With Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

As small companies, neither startup could afford to extend their product alone, but through creative leadership, we were able to negotiate a win-win strategic partnership for a joint product. As a result, we shared in capturing a new high-end market, without major new marketing or development.

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Startups Must Embrace Coopetition For Rapid Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

As small companies, neither startup could afford to extend their product alone, but through creative leadership, we were able to negotiate a win-win strategic partnership for a joint product. As a result, we shared in capturing a new high-end market, without major new marketing or development.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. the funding and market coverage. LivingSocial. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Big Revenues vs. little revenues

Scalable Startup

or look for major large chunks of money from partnerships or strategic investors? Many easy-to-set-up payment systems and business models on the Internet have recently popularized little revenues – micro-payments, price per transaction, low cost, SaaS, freemium, monthly payments. startups are learning this the hard way.

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