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High Functioning vs. Low Functioning Startup Boards

Both Sides of the Table

cash & unallocated stock options) Should we raise capital, from whom, how much and at what price? Should we cut costs, do layoffs, close divisions and focus scare resources on fewer projects? Some board members spend all of their time in the meeting on electronic devices doing email or even checking social media.

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Adam Scott | ScoreBig, Startups, and LA Tech

Tech Zulu Event

I once worked for the NBA and there are two problems that the live entertainment and sporting industry faces: the number of empty seats and the consistency of raising prices. Now onto the second problem, the rising ticket prices. The last several decades, this industry has done a pretty good job at raising prices.

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Adam Kanner | ScoreBig, Startups, and LA Tech

Tech Zulu Event

While I was working for the NBA, I learned there were two problems the live entertainment and sporting industry were facing: the number of empty seats and the consistency of raising prices. Now on to the second problem; the rising ticket prices. Over the last several decades, this industry has done a pretty good job at raising prices.

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

It won’t be long before another round of layoffs comes, and these new tools will create new jobs to fill the gap. The mobile Internet – The latest major computing cycle [Email readers, continue here…] Over the last fifty years, the world transitioned from mainframe computing to mini-computers to PCs to the desktop Internet.

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