Startup Growth
Why Coopetition Is Good For Startup Growth
By Martin at August 2, 2014 | 11:53 am | 0 Comment
Startup founders are known for their passion for their startup idea, and for their passion to kill every competitor. Thus they often overlook the fact that their biggest growth opportunity may be a win-win collaboration with a serious competitor, known in the business as coopetition. Of course, this path involves some risk, but you never get anywhere unless you take a more...
New Startup Should Focus On Growth Or Profits?
By Martin at December 14, 2013 | 8:43 am | 0 Comment
A question that I often hear debated these days is whether a new startup should focus on growth or profits. First of all, the glory days of “dot.coms” are gone, when investors “didn’t care” about profitability, and all the money went to growth. In the long run, everyone wants both profitability and growth, but the question is still which comes first. Most more...
How To Maximize Your Startup Company Growth
By Martin at October 9, 2013 | 10:30 am | 0 Comment
Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and more...