Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Is there a market for your class of product at all? Market risk is constant and should be of greatest concern to any executive or entrepreneur. These include having a current knowledge of competitors’ hiring practices, pricing strategy, and more. Here are five basic kinds of internal risks that a business faces over time.

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Berkonomics

MAY 27, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] Each board member is legally tasked with two duties: the duty of care, and the duty of loyalty: care for the living entity that is the corporation itself, and loyalty not to the board member’s constituency, but to the corporation itself. What are the legal responsibilities of board members?

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

A few minutes away from downtown Atlanta, Collab Studio ATL describes itself as “a tech-based one-stop shop for content creators, HBCU students and young entrepreneurs to achieve their business goals.” “I feel like the studio has the potential to be a great place for creators like me to thrive.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

A valuable lesson from aviation for entrepreneurs. If the market is moving quickly toward your class of product or service, you may be able to gain a piece just by being there at the right time with the right product or service. The market was moving in the opposite direction from the company, and the company paid the ultimate price.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

A valuable lesson from aviation for entrepreneurs. If the market is moving quickly toward your class of product or service, you may be able to gain a piece just by being there at the right time with the right product or service. The market was moving in the opposite direction from the company, and the company paid the ultimate price.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Sometimes the end game or sale of the company is not a happy event for the early investors, including the entrepreneur or the founders. Promissory notes come before any equity, and most late equity investments come before early equity investments, even of the same class of security.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

However, many people are not aware that prior to entering academia, Steve was a wily and creative marketing entrepreneur. And then they said one thing that most marketers go their whole career never hearing, 'Listen Steve, price is irrelevant, it is speed that matters.' We had been pricing our graphics cards to be a low-cost provider.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

entrepreneur” and by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel”, David is a former Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. collaborate with over 250,000 entrepreneurs in 95 countries. collaborate with over 250,000 entrepreneurs in 95 countries. By David S. Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak?

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, All of this has fundamentally changed the efficiency of the market, with prices anywhere from fifty to seventy-five percent lower. Your finance has to be world class.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 2, 2015

After all, entry price registration question aside, they are all expensive once you factor in airfare, hotels, ground transportation, booths (if you have one), meals and – especially – time away from your day jobs? If you want to see world-class speakers and hear what they have to say in person – you will get that.

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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. You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Shervin Pishevar, another person who I respect wrote the following on Twitter, “ Saying you don’t like @AngelList is like saying you don’t like Email. Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. But it +is+ an anti-entrepreneur stance.&#

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2009

For example, maybe they have a math problem, or there is something they are not understanding in science class, or maybe they need help with an English paper. So, we made it such that a tutor can ask any price they think is valid, with the question askers price used as a guideline. Obviously, that made me feel pretty good.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2015

Is there a market for your class of product at all? Market risk is constant and should be of greatest concern to any executive or entrepreneur. Email readers, continue here…] Second is product risk. These include having a current knowledge of competitors’ hiring practices, pricing strategy, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs. So, we wondered what we could do at a low price point, things like transcribing voicemail, things like social media sentiment analysis. Before that, I was in New York, City. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> > -jeff.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

I thought it would be interesting to understand the challenges and concerns of entrepreneurs who began selling online for the first time in 2016, so I sat down with Heidi Muther, COO at Z S upply , LLC. After Pacific Sunwear, my career covered two new ends of the retail spectrum; off price at Ross and women’s luxury at St. John Knits.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. This is one book-end of the cycle. Seems an obvious fit.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

They offer classes in personal responsibility and accountability, they teach men to forgive themselves and to forgive the people who perpetrated them as children because they all grew up surrounded by bad influences. You get in a line with executives on one side and EITs (entrepreneurs in training) on the other. They wanted to learn.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

6 Entrepreneurs share their predictions for this year’s evolution of online industries, which will be key for small businesses across the globe in 2016. However, before these dreams become a reality, what price will the online consumer expect to continue pay for private carrier service as our online dependence increases?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product? Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives. Well … you might be right on this one.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Second, how to get leads.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value! All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. Price: $25 (Early Bird). Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Price: $15 (Early Bird). The Coloft is a space for entrepreneurs, independents, startups, programmers, designers, professionals, and awesome people in general. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m. What: Spotlight Series Event.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] Each board member is legally tasked with two duties: the duty of care, and the duty of loyalty: care for the living entity that is the corporation itself, and loyalty not to the board member’s constituency, but to the corporation itself. The average board for a company taking outside investment money is five.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea. Jamie Siminoff is not only one of the single best true entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, he’s amongst the best we’ve worked with in the country.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Every person on my team was A-class. We didn’t hire resumes and experience, we hired smart, good people who wanted to be entrepreneurs. We had lawyers everywhere; digging through files, reviewing all of our emails and mounds of paperwork. If so, buy them (at a reasonable price, of course). It was ugly.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Technology riches yield bumper crops in venture capital with new firms and new largesses – the rewards of LPs rediscovering our asset class. Or the influx of massive new amounts of entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs seeking fortune and fame? Followed by a drastic drop in prices as a selloff occurs” A surge in prices.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). Juno provided a free email service. Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. Pricing information. Working at Juno.

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