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.

Class 120

Class Course Report Competition 120

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Using big data that has been mined for specific information, we can now market to individuals within classes, some of whom will not fit the stereotype and would have been missed with more generalized efforts. Email readers, continue here…] Consider the soon–to–be grandmother checking for gifts for her pregnant daughter.

Marketing 120

Marketing IP Email Class 120

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).

Class 202

Class Report Competition .Net 202

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. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number investor classes into one. It’s an option, even though an expensive one.

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Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Berkonomics

JUNE 17, 2011

Most businesses fall into the class of those that can be sold someday to a willing buyer. Email readers continue here.] Is your value proposition for an eventual buyer that you have some secret sauce that allows you to compete more effectively against competition? What creates value in a business?

Equity 209

Equity Class Email Competition 209

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? We got over 400 applications for the ten slots we had open in this class, and we picked ten amazing companies. So far, eight of the ten companies in our current class have raised outside funding, and we're really happy with how it's gone so far. So when is the next class?

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

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

Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2015

Is there a market for your class of product at all? Email readers, continue here…] Second is product risk. Fourth is competitive risk , which consists of two separate risks. Of course, there are external risks that cannot be controlled or predicted, but can be planned for as well –. That discussion is for a future time.

Competition 120

Competition Marketing Class Product 120

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

Yesterday, the X Prize Foundation (www.xprize.org) announced the finalists in the Progressive Automotive X Prize , a $10M competition geared at advancing automotive technology and developing 100 MPG automobiles. For our readers who haven't heard of the Progressive Automotive X Prize, can you talk about what it's all about? READ MORE>>.

Competition 153

Competition Southern California Technology Class 153

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The basic concept has to make some kind of sense given the technical, market and competitive environment, otherwise nothing else matters. This is where you find the superb Rails coder, and the world-class information architect, and the consummate sales guy, and the persuasive business development person, and the brilliant CFO.

Startup 189

Startup Sales Ideas Entrepreneur 189

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Music Prodigy in June was the only finalist from Los Angeles in a competition that featured over 30 finalists from around the world and was named the Judge’s Winner and Audience Winner at the Silicon Valley hosted competition organized by business accelerator Plug and Play Technology Center. Winning Not By Sheer Luck.

Education 106

Education Startup Technology Patents 106

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class. I encourage your readers join (BetterWorks), we’ll hook them up with a discount. We hired people who did not have outside sales experience. Passion is a hard piece to.

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Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

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 for this group that we explore the implications implicit in raising money for growth. .

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Invest Class Entrepreneur 174

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition.

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. But I’m opposed to using data to “prove&# unprovable facts because I know that readers are often susceptible to this kind of data manipulation. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer.

Startup 289

Startup Statistics Entrepreneur Study 289

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: RFID is used a lot in pharmacies. The difference in what we're doing, is we're an active sensor network.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. Programming should be the middle class job of the next 20 years. Ryan’s long-term goal is to help large populations of people train themselves at young ages with world-class online teachers. Americans watch 5.3

Invest 295

Invest Carson Technical Review Education 295

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. No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 12, 2010 This is part 1 of the series: 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

The Luddites would ruin machinery by “throwing a spanner in the works” (or a monkey wrench to the American reader). People who failed to industrialize, however well intentioned one’s goals, were at a competitive disadvantage to those who had. It’s actually more complicated than that.

Education 150

Education Resource Class Course 150