Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

As a VC I regularly meet with companies and listen to their plans. A significant number of the companies I meet with get some form of feedback from me that: “I’m a bit worried that you’re doing too many THINGS. I always tell teams I meet with, “The scarcest resource in your company is management bandwidth.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Most entrepreneurs quote a resource for market size but fail to then take the next step to eliminate all parts of that market unreachable by the company or product. That’s likely to be completely unreachable for you with almost any amount of resources. The post What is your biggest error in company planning?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2012

Planetary Resources , the space asteroid mining venture co-founded by Peter Diamandis, has quietly been tapping talent from Pasadena's NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, according to an email from Diamandis sent to backers of the company.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Here are some resources that come from other sources: Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

Brea-based IMS Company , a manufacturer of in-flight portable entertainment players and related products, said Friday that it has acquired Flight Deck Resources, a provider of hardware for flight deck management on airplanes. According to IMS, Flight Deck Resources will become a new division, which will be known as IMS Flight Deck.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Professional investors love to see companies where the first round of financing came from the entrepreneur, showing “skin in the game” and more motivation to succeed because of money invested as well as time and creativity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2017

I wrote up the background of her company Imbellus here  — essentially she’s building world simulations to assess human potential with the short-term goal of helping the most advanced companies have break-throughs on recruiting top talent but her longer term goal is to help use this rubric to help change how we teach children in America.

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Berkonomics

JULY 16, 2020

Growing companies usually require more working capital during their periods of rapid growth. In this insight, we need to speak of the sources of working capital and the implications to the future financial health of the choices made when selecting one financial resource. Catching up from past insights. It may not be equity.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 -- Navigating the Path with Sure Footing: Building a Life Science Company with Cost- Saving Flexible Resources. With the continued resource constraints life science companies at all stages face, utilizing flexible external resources and/or virtual teams offer companies an attractive business model.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

This shift allows business to reallocate human resources to more complex and strategic roles, or eliminate those positions entirely. At TechEmpower , we’ve used LLMs as part of marketing strategies where you can find and classify companies, personalize outreach campaigns and have personalized drip campaigns.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 17, 2020

While the business didn’t work out, it put the budding young entrepreneur (and college dropout) on a path that would lead him to launch the Los Angeles-based startup Bambee , a company that lets small businesses give their employees access to the same kinds of human resources services that large companies have.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

While some of the largest privately held technology companies, like SpaceX and Tesla , have shifted to manufacturing ventilators, smaller companies are also trying to pitch in and relieve scarcity locally. 3D-printing companies are working on new ways to manufacture personal protective equipment and swabs for COVID-19 testing.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

And good board members can add real value to you and the company. Is it feasible (financially, with our resources, with our capabilities?)” “Can we afford to do this?” “Is Importantly, these also help a board to cover the legal “duty of care” for the health of the company. A better company is the goal. Is this legal?” “Is

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

In fact, only 100 of the 10,000 multimillion-dollar consumer companies around the world can claim to be an “apostle brand” – one that inspires enduring trust, loyalty, and endorsement. They are your greatest resource for generating new apostles and a cultural advantage. Make your team as well as your customers proud.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 29, 2019

For weeks, we’ve highlighted both good and bad things about boards of directors for your company (or non-profit.) This week, let’s focus upon number one – aside from the requirements of boards to protect the company itself (not the shareholders.). No, that is not the watch company, if you are one of those.)

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Each decision you make to commit resources – your money or your use of corporate or personal time – affects the future value of your business. But each commitment of resources of any substantial size for acquisition of new products, talent, even new companies, changes the value of your enterprise perhaps to a great degree.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2019

Los Angeles-based Internet services and publishing giant j2 Global has acquired two companies, saying this morning that it acquired Ekahau , a company in the digital media space, and Castle Connolly , a company in the digital media and healthcare industry.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2021

The Los Angeles-based company has a new residential solar plus energy storage program for homeowners in Queens that’s going to be rolled out in partnership with ConEd. We’ll cover every aspect of company building: Fundraising, recruiting, sales, product-market fit, PR, marketing and brand building.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2011

Each decision you make to commit resources affects the future value of the business to some degree. Minor decisions, such as replacing employees who have left the company or equipment needing updating, are usually considered operational in nature, and unless the business is changing direction, not relevant to this analysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2014

You can start a new e-Commerce site on the Internet for as little as $100, with cheap smart phone apps, new technology innovations, or tapping the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. Mature companies often lose sight of scrap and changeover time in existing systems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In fact, even within Fortune 100 companies, almost 90 percent have encountered growth stalls or flirted with failure, or worse, in the last 50 years. No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Companies follow each other rather than the market. Morgan (chemical manufacturing).

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. I created the term “time bankruptcy” almost thirty years ago when the computer software business was young, and I was a software developer building a young company based upon quality first. You’d know the symptoms, if not the name. Why use this term?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2022

I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it. Seek out experts and return with ideas and resources. They tend to ask the fundamental questions, see new patterns, and notice the mistakes of others.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2014

The company helps companies mitigate DDoS attacks, which are becoming all too common an issue for companies to deal with, and recently have been used to extort companies to restore service to their web sites. Black Lotus is led by Arman Khalili, and has major operations at LA''s One Wilshire colocation facility.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 19, 2023

So, let’s bend the meaning to help us focus on resources while preserving those words. and apply it to our management of corporate resources. Here is a way to think about resource management as we make critical decisions that obligate our personal and corporate assets for growth. Take, for instance , time.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But a small excursion caught early and corrected saves massive corrective resources later. Here’s an example: Take for example the manufacturing company with a small quality problem in one component, resulting in a test failure rate above the norm. The post How to make a small problem into a big one. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 9, 2021

a human resources management software company, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Clearlake Capital Group in a transaction worth $5.2 Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand Inc.,

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The companies said that Maxim used the new tablet-based software through an initial program with more than 2,500 participants, and is planning to roll out the software with other clients in the new year. bioiq health systems maxim employee wellness screening human resources tablet' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

A number of local, high tech companies are putting their efforts behind Movember , a charity which helps raise funding and awareness for men's health, and particularly prostate cancer. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

This insight follows closely the conclusions from the previous declaration, that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three, Los Angeles area companies have been selected for a accelerator being run by Silicon Valley Bank and Mastercard, the companies announced this morning. Silicon Valley Bank and Mastercard said the startups will go through a four-month virtual program that provides resources to help refine and enhance their business ideas.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Thursday, February 26, 2009 -- The 3rd SoCalBio Human Resources Conference.Organized annually by the Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio), this HR conference provides a forum for information sharing among HR executives in device and biotech companies, HR service providers, bio-recruiters, educators, and workforce training professionals (..)

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Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2022

For many early-stage companies with outside investors, the goal is to ultimately sell the company or even go public, always at a significant increase in valuation over time. Yes, if you are a bad leader of people, you will lose human resources and frustrate your attempt to reach to goal. What is your leadership end game goal?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2024

Especially if they have sold their companies and live comfortably upon the proceeds, these people are often the most willing to help and the most patient through the process. We had no term for such work in those days and created the phrase “resource capitalist” to describe the person and process. Where can you find the best coaches?

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Next, return to the list on the board and have the group do its best to divine what it is about your company that would most attract the buyer if it had perfect knowledge of your business and its resources. Next, have the group focus upon column three, ignoring the obvious gain our company would make in liquidity to shareholders.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

What I didn''t discuss was how you should go about selecting the right company. I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. How good is the company''s own site? Quality Result.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 29, 2023

As a professional investor in early-stage companies, I have long discounted long, detailed business plans in favor of a concise “executive summary” followed by a believable spreadsheet-based financial forecast projecting three to five years into the future. It’s time to speak of some sort of business plan.

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