Berkonomics

JANUARY 6, 2022

Especially when outside investors, venture capitalists or angels have put in substantial money, and the sales price is not enough to give them a reasonable return for the time and money invested, these investors can be – in a word – greedy. and there are those accumulated dividends. Here’s an example that will make your heart skip a beat.

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Venture Capital Sales Pricing Equity 156

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Professional angels: This is the arena where I work and play. Do not expect grand valuations of your enterprise from these professional angels.

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Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Prepare for your annual meetings well. If there is a concern over some investors gaining a competitive advantage, the amount of information may be reduced to the minimum for some classes of those investors. But don’t worry. Few investors will show up that day.

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Class Course Report Competition 120

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If you are looking for money, this question will certainly come up in one form or another when you approach professional or organized angel or VC investors. Concentrate on a world class team. Do they bet on the entrepreneur (jockey) or the business idea and plan (the horse)? This is serious stuff. A more complex answer.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Ideas Summary 120

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If you are looking for money, this question will certainly come up in one form or another when you approach professional or organized angel or VC investors. Concentrate on a world class team. Do they bet on the entrepreneur (jockey) or the business idea and plan (the horse)? This is serious stuff. A more complex answer.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Ideas Summary 120

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? So when is the next class?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2012

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Email readers, continue here.] Most VC’s today are becoming enlightened (as are organized angels), correctly forcing many decisions that might have been dictated by investment documents instead to the corporate board to decide.

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Venture Capital Invest Pricing Class 198

Berkonomics

JUNE 12, 2014

We should think of the creation and growth of a high valued company as the sum of three parts, with three distinct classes of participants helping to make real value out of a raw start-up. Email readers, continue here.] First, there is the entrepreneur , the visionary, and force behind the venture from start to finish.

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Startup Equity Invest Class 214

Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] If there is a concern over some investors gaining a competitive advantage, the amount of information may be reduced to the minimum for some classes of investors. There is a provision that a waiver of notice may be signed preventing this need, but it requires that all shareholders sign).

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Berkonomics

JUNE 17, 2011

Most businesses fall into the class of those that can be sold someday to a willing buyer. Accepting venture or angel money is to create a contract between the investors and the entrepreneur that the business will someday be sold or even go public to create an exit for the investors. Email readers continue here.]

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Equity Class Email Competition 209

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies.

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Southern California News Platform Class 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

These nominees came from (many) reader suggestions; suggestions by a wide range of industry insiders who served as an informal nominating committee; and our own and other editorial coverage. Mike Bonin , Council Member, City of Los Angeles. Congratulations to our third class of the socalTECH 50! Where did these names come from?

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SoCalTech Lootcrate Southern California Snapchat 100

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2010

I recently read a book I'd highly recommend to every reader of this blog called "Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive” by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Mark Suster – Both Sides Of The Table.

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Southern California GRP Partners Blogging SoCal 113

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. Described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering. collaborate with over 250,000 entrepreneurs in 95 countries.

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Startup Sales Ideas Entrepreneur 189

Berkonomics

JANUARY 27, 2010

Taking in angel or venture money requires a setting of an entrepreneur’s expectations that may come as a shock at least at first. From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering.

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Venture Capital Sales Invest Class 168

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Nowhere is social proof more prevalent than in angel investing.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Email readers continue here.]. Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. It is most often a win-win for both you and the strategic partner. Professional angels: This is the arena where I work and play.

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Venture Capital Invest Class Entrepreneur 174

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Music Prodigy , a Los Angeles based music education technology firm serious on improving the way people learn, play and interact with music beat over 70 startups with their app Rock Prodigy to win the Silicon Beach Awards. It also won the 2011 Appy Award in education and the 2011 About.com’s Readers Choice Award.

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Education Startup Technology Patents 106

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

Messenger : Paige Craig, CEO BetterWorks, Angel Investor, former Marine. We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class. 1) In addition to running BetterWorks, you are also an Angel Investor. I encourage your readers join (BetterWorks), we’ll hook them up with a discount. I implore you to listen to the interview below.

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Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based StarGreetz (www.stargreetz.com) debuted its celebrity-powered, personalized message service to the public, allowing both brands and artists to send highly personalized messages to their fans. For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz?

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Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

TechZulu recently sat down with east coast transplant Olenka Polak to talk about startup life in Los Angeles. Explain to our readers why you started your company, and why you created your app myLINGO. Share with our readers your experience surrounding the launch of the app. What problem were you trying to solve?

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. We’ll call these “inside angels.” There are other classes of equity investors for small or early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. Angel investment groups or funds. Friends and family investors.

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Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

We’ve spoken of financing a young company through friends and family, known as “inside angels.” There are three classes of equity investors for early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. First, angel investment groups come in all sizes from a few organized angels to large groups of three hundred or more.

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Equity Startup Organization Invest 232

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Unlike Walmart, you don't have to walk through a reader or interrogator, because we have an active tag with a five year asset life, saying here I am. We've got a nice API with ties to the enterprise class applications. Jason Howe: Yes, it's a Series D, though our Series A was an angel funding. We have an almost no-risk model.

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Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

You can fly first class and not talk to fellow passengers. One of my big disappointments at GRP has been our office space in Los Angeles. A few years ago I started a mentorship organization in Los Angeles called Launchpad LA now run by the uber talented Sam Teller. my tribute to Cory Van Wolvelaere & challenge to readers).

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Startup Organization Entrepreneur Blogging 319

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. Angel vs VC? - 0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn?

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217