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6 Due Diligence Goals When Vetting Business Partners

Startup Professionals Musings

Business partners can be co-founders in a startup, multiple owners of an existing business, or a joint venture. In every case, a partner can be an asset, bringing new skills and perspectives to the business; or a burden, making every decision more difficult, and taxing your lifestyle satisfaction.

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5 Ways A Startup Benefits From Dual Partner Strengths

Startup Professionals Musings

These were outlined well, with some good recommendations for overcoming them, in the classic book, “ Rocket Fuel ,” by Gino Wickman and Mark C. Let’s take a hard look at the key potential weaknesses of a visionary, and the value of an execution-oriented partner, which the authors call an integrator : Staying focused and following through.

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SAP BAU Videos – Massively extended partner ecosystem

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The SAP Business as Unusual book by Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier was released on December 20. The book relies heavily on conversations with SAP, customer, partner, research firm. click on badge on left to link to the Amazon page).

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5 Steps To Locking In The Right New Venture Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. This is the new world of do-it-yourself (DIY) prototyping.

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How to Get Sponsorship for Your Business, Book or Podcast

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When your business, book or podcast needs additional support, sponsorship can make a huge difference. Regardless of whether you’re seeking sponsorship for a product, event, book, or podcast, the overarching aim of attracting corporate sponsors remains the same: you need sponsors that engage your audience. What do they dislike?

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5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transforming Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, only a few people today still think of Amazon as an online provider of books and related goods, now that they have exploded their business world-wide into every product arena, added web services (AWS), television and film production (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a bricks-and-mortar grocery chain (Whole Foods), and more.

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How to Make Partner Marketing Work for You

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How to Make Partner Marketing Work for You written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. On this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I sit down with founder and CEO of the performance marketing agency Acceleration Partners, Robert Glazer. Today, Glazer and I speak about the ins and outs of partner marketing.

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