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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. Ability to up-sell customers with related products.

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[Interview] Patrick Mackaronis, Director Of Business Development At Brabble

YoungUpstarts

As the years went on, Pat Mackaronis continued to grow his network and partners in a second restaurant as well as a nightclub, he also invested in several small businesses and worked with teams to grow their projections. Patrick Mackaronis: Everyone has different terminology for certain things when it comes to investors.

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

VC Cafe

Source: Ben Thompson The missed opportunity of Media The realization that most people do not want to pay for the “core” product called news came late. Generative AI (or Gen AI for short) certainly further democratises the creation of all sorts of media – we could call it a “digital production revolution”.

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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. Ability to up-sell customers with related products.

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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 ). And this part of the product is entirely free to use. I like that.

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Need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

Certainly, bootstrapping is a preferred method of funding growth if it does not hold back the speed of growth or hobble the quality of product or service to the extent that better-funded competitors can overtake the business. It is most often a win-win for both you and the strategic partner.

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When Not What

Austin Startup

Extensive prep work on product, messaging, lead gen, demos, and scheduling specific meetings starts months ahead of an action-oriented conference. Buying a plane ticket and a badge and just showing up is not likely to be productive. Investors will close up their checkbooks until that gets resolved.