InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Fall quarter of Sr. Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 3, 2019

How many times have you projected income and profits only to fall short, and make excuses to those depending upon you to perform? We know the answer of course. Email readers, continue here…] Some of us who’ve had extensive experience in senior management have lived by a rule of the 50’s. Here’s one for the ages.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

A manager secure in the position should never fear empowering direct reports to make decisions that fall within the resources allocated to them and within the budget agreed to with them. Email readers, continue here.] The more power you cede, the more you become a teacher and the more your direct reports grow in their positions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

Or an angel investor starts emailing the CEO of a company with all the people they want him or her to meet. I know some will read this as an indictment of all introductions and of course it’s not that. It starts seemingly innocent enough. A person at a board meeting starts listing all the people they know at companies a, b and c.

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Berkonomics

JULY 16, 2020

Email readers, continue here… ] The banks want to maintain their venture relationships and of course, want to use the existing company cash in their bank as collateral for – you guessed it – their loans to the company. And yet, such a loan does rise and fall with need. Ironically, the term is “compensating balances”.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Whatever the problem, the person or board to whom you report does not want to hear about it after it has become a threat to the enterprise. And of course, a promise not kept is an indication of a lack understanding of the problem or of care for the solution. Keep the information to yourself?

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I never took a business course, never wrote a business plan, and never raised any outside capital. It wasn’t a fall- back position. Email readers, continue here.] I consider this trip the anniversary of the company’s starting up, and made the trip 11 years in a row. How was striking out on my own?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. So I often try to stay off of email during the day. Admittedly I also fall into this trap. Of course if I’m not ensconced in deep, thoughtful work then by all means I answer the call. Tim Ferriss gave this extra emphasis in his book.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 9, 2018

Of course, venture-funded startups with long product creation times do not fit this mold as easily, often funded for long periods of losses with many more employees at hand in development positions. Email readers, continue here…] But at or around the 20-employee mark, the founders usually find that two things occur.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

“I truly believe the ‘girlboss’ term was created to celebrate an emerging wave of female leaders – which is still rare in business, and was even rarer around 10 years ago when the phrase was popularized,” Green told TechCrunch in an email. . And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

We figured out we needed some tools to monitor the performance of the agents, otherwise they'd just fall off the face of the earth. Andrwe Bermudez: We were able to get a lot of data using those tools, and then latched onto their email communications. We'd get 20 percent, because we had a real estate license to collect that.

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Berkonomics

JULY 30, 2011

Of course, venture-funded startups with long product creation times do not fit this mold as easily, often funded for long periods of losses with many more employees at hand in development positions. So management reorganizes the structure of the organization to fit the new needs of the growing enterprise.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 25, 2012

And if you’re the CEO, your board definitely does not want to hear that revenues are about to fall through the floor because bookings for the past two periods have been so far below forecast. Email readers, c ontinue here.] An alert does not have to be too detailed or too long.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

Of course the VC is looking to have specificity in how you plan to spend the money you’re going to raise and plans that show a pie chart that says, “25% on marketing, 30% on technology and R&D, 20% on infrastructure, 25% on G&A” do not get funded. It’s the amount of money you’re raising. A VC is looking for reasonableness.

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Alon Schwartz

MARCH 12, 2019

The first step is to avoid falling into an emotional state of mind, which we’re all prone to do at times like these. This mindset made no sense then and we shouldn’t fall into this trap now. Of course, you might be right. Maybe you did make it clear in status meetings and emails that you were falling behind.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. The app does: Alerts users before they fall out of touch with important contacts, across email, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter. Maybe we just have too many tools at our disposal.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Of course, there are items that are more obvious that you already have with you, such as your laptop, tablet, and anything remotely related to working while on the road. Basically, it sends you a text and/or email to let you know when your luggage has landed, which is hopefully at the same time that you, too, have reached your destination.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Here are some recent great posts that I’ve come across that generally fall in the intersection of startups and CTOs. Of course, one of the best ideas around this is to have Negative Customer Acquisition Costs. It’s a weekly email we send to AngelList, with 3 high-quality startups who want intros. Great stuff.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 21, 2013

The banks want to maintain their venture relationships and of course, want to use the existing company cash in their bank as collateral for – you guessed it – their loans to the company. And yet, such a loan does rise and fall with need.

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TechEmpower

JULY 5, 2016

2 53 + 1 is the first integer to fall in one of these gaps. If we need to produce JSON from JavaScript, of course we expect that JSON.stringify will be involved. var url = "/user/" + user.id + "/email"; // Tries to update the wrong user (and fails, hopefully) $.post(url, post(url, { email: newEmail }); }.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2017

But during the year, if the forecast revenues fall short or are greatly exceeded, it is fair to revise the budget and rethink your hiring and resources. Email readers, continue here…] Note that I used the term “forecast” for revenues for the next year.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. If — and it’s a big if of course — they can do that on the cheap, then why should an LP care at all? If I can ever be of assistance, hit reply, or send an email to danny@techcrunch.com. Burn the management fee in a fireplace if it makes the deals happen.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Of course not. It's just life's way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’” If you are not intermittingly failing, you are not trying hard enough. As such, she elected to “change course,” despite the fact that she had already been paid a sizable bonus. Winfrey and asked her to audition for A.M. Chicago, a glorified cooking show.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

No doubt, some of these approaches will fall outside some readers’ ethical comfort zones. BCC Email – If a press release includes a company contact’s email address, use the same syntax to email your BDC contact. For instance, if the contact’s email is Sue.Who@acme.com, you can enter your contact’s name in the same format.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

Gabi is personal, cross-cultural, and ‘gab’ means, course, casual, endless way of talking. Of course we were thinking also on the expression “gift of the gab(i)” How long have you been working on Gabi? Of course not. Gabi is a new way to use and visualize Facebook, a totally new experience.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Integrating business process management solutions and workflow software can increase efficiency significantly, and reduce the chance of anything falling through the cracks. This was not easy in the past as you would have to send emails manually or call them on the phone. Communication.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

There are many signs to look for when receiving candid feedback from your customers, here’s a few examples of things Make It Work customers say and what we are doing about it: Customer (from a Delight Survey email): Why don’t you offer billing as an option, rather than require payment on demand at the end of the appointment?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

No, Seriously … Exactly six years ago today I received an email from my friend Ynon Kreiz introducing me to Andrew Stalbow and Petri Järvilehto. Ynon had been the CEO of Maker Studios and I trust his opinion a great deal so of course I took the meeting. Some Seriously Great News.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. Of course it’s great to bring in outside experience to complement your team but it must be done judiciously. Know what you believe is important.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category. Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. . In many cases, editorial content in an email newsletter is an effective manner of acquiring customers. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Making Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Possible. Or emailed a video clip to a sibling or friend across the country just to put a smile on their face? Individual clips will be posted soon.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Making Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Possible. Or emailed a video clip to a sibling or friend across the country just to put a smile on their face? Individual clips will be posted soon.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals. Before skimmers race to the comments or Twitter to complain – I’m not saying intro’s aren’t valuable – of course they are.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

It's a comprehensive program with national sales training, HTML emails, a very cool interactive Flash landing page about the 8 ways to save, brochure and presentation for the sales people, extending reach via social media, etc. Of course AO many not count because they're in Northern Cal and not cheap, but return-on-time is high.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2021

I hope that if you see yourself in any of thee archetypes below you can see a plan for staying the course and having a successful 2021. How you eat less and eat better is, of course, the hard part. And while this weight of course has some temporary nature to it, it took a lot of hard work to get my month back on track.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

Investment professionals tend to fall into the following categories: Not an investment partner. All of this, of course, is Sales 101. You could easily guess their email addresses or ping them on Twitter?—?don’t. People make this mistake all the time. You also need to know “who can get deals done?” No matter how tempting it is.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

Naturally, we’ll likely see some of these attempts fall by the wayside in the relentlessly Darwinian environment of the Internet. Of course, in terms of how it will impact us at home and ultimately in business, as we’ve seen with Enterprise 2.0, Email Dion Hinchcliffe Subscribe to Enterprise Web 2.0

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