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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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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

Investment bank Drake Star Partners published a report on the gaming investment and M&A activity in the first half of 2022. And a record-breaking $7 billion was invested through venture capitalists and strategic investors in private gaming companies during the first half with 11 large rounds that exceeded $100 million.

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Should You Allow “Board Observers” on Your Startup Board?

Both Sides of the Table

Often partners like to bring along an analyst or associate both as a way to help train younger staff (it’s an apprentice business) and also to have somebody to follow up on action items. This can be practical for both parties if this is a senior partner already sitting on 10–12 boards. Strategic Investors ?—?This

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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. In a few years, most media on the internet will have been created synthetically, especially video with its high production costs, monetisation potential and dominance to grab attention as a medium compared to all other media.

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Need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

When the need is high… For the rest of us, desiring to build large, valuable enterprises quickly, the need for outside capital is high on our list of requirements and even the source for some sleepless nights as we worry over the availability and cost of capital. It is most often a win-win for both you and the strategic partner.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). banner ads on a CPM, CPC or a Cost-Per-Install [CPI] basis).

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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.