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6 Ways To Win By Creative Partnering With Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

A strategic partnership, negotiated with a win-win attitude, can accomplish growth faster and cheaper than either could do alone. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. This approach has been used for years, and implies very little risk, but many startups are still “too busy” to pursuing possible partners.

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Startups Must Embrace Coopetition For Rapid Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

A strategic partnership, negotiated with a win-win attitude, can accomplish growth faster and cheaper than either could do alone. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. This approach has been used for years, and implies very little risk, but many startups are still “too busy” to pursuing possible partners.

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Quick Thoughts on Term Sheets and LOIs

Rob Go

In almost all cases, when a term sheet doesn’t result in a deal, it’s because of the investor feels like there was some form of indiscretion on the part of the company, or something catastrophic has happened in the outside world or to the partner or fund itself. This tends to be true for the VC business too.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate.

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

The creation of content, but especially the sharing of content became a zero cost game. But in the coming age of generative AI, endless synthetic content and misinformation – there might be an opportunity for traditional media companies to regain their reputation as a 4th branch within a democracy.