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February 7, 2019

Eight rules for making corporate partnerships with startups work

Corporates and startups are increasingly keen to work with each other, but the majority fail.


Maija Palmer

6 min read

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Large corporations are increasingly looking to team up with startups in order stay innovative. Partnering with an agile startup is seen as a way to dip a toe into new technologies quicker than a large, bureaucratic organisation, saddled with legacy systems, is able to.

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