Harris: Corporate partnerships fail unless tied to the core business
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Tim Harris, founder and CEO of Swift Navigation, discusses how startups should evaluate potential corporate partnerships.
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“What you need out of a partner is some value that you can offer them on their main product line, is what I personally believe, because a lot of them have these innovation departments, and they want to explore lots of other things, but politically, they just cannot get real momentum behind other bits of business, because their main business is so good already.”
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