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6 Ways To Improve Your Odds Of New Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills. You need the funding and support, but venture capitalists can be very demanding, and set high targets. The focus of key leaders has to change from driving innovative initiatives to replicating repeatable processes and tuning the overall product cycle.

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10 Strategies For Success Long-Term As Well As Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term. You need to be constantly assessing mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestitures. Cote, former Chairman and CEO of Honeywell.

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The Role Of Virtual Data Rooms In Keeping Information Secure

YoungUpstarts

Making use of technology for storing confidential files and data is getting more in-demand. It is widely used for mergers and acquisitions to help entities collaborate and disclose data for transparency. Aside from mergers and acquisitions, the VDR can also be used in different industries.

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Should You Build Out Features Or Create A New Product?

YoungUpstarts

If you were looking for a lawyer to represent your company for a multimillion-dollar merger, what kind of lawyer would you want? Most of us would want to hire the most experienced, cutthroat lawyer specializing in multimillion-dollar mergers. To determine whether there was real demand for SocialCentiv, I set out to collect some data.

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Software Patents

Startup Professionals Musings

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition).

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Four Skills You Need To Be Effective In Today?s Gig Economy

YoungUpstarts

With constant downsizing, mergers, and business pivots, today’s workers must be able to create a stable income. The evolving marketplace demands that you do more than work hard and have expertise in your field. The days of outsourcing your professional development and financial stability to an employer are quickly coming to a close.

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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

9- A merger of two companies. With that merger, half of each of our business’ names also merged, and that’s how we came up with ‘Enventys Partners’. 11- By identifying customers demand. I came up with my business name by identifying what our customers fundamentally and uniquely demanded from our Agency at a core value level.

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