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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. All this was done without damaging anyone’s credibility, or stealing customers. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution.

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

VC Cafe

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. Production costs of content will continue to fall drastically – Case study Video Video is a great case in point.

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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. All this was done without damaging anyone’s credibility, or stealing customers. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. -Pincus said FrontierVille is most successful launch (1mm+ daily users in < 1 week).

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. I believe that “strategic&# money is an oxymoron.

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