Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I was chairman of a company that had been offered an investment by a Fortune 500 company offering to make a strategic investment in our business, which would be capable of driving new demand to the large company through a series of new web services creating a greater need for the large company’s products.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. Our learnings and developments from Maven will go on to benefit and accelerate the growth of other areas of GM business.”. Image Credits: Screenshot/Maven email.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 10, 2021

If sudden demand for a product takes management by surprise, having solved these key issues will remove the key barrier to ramping production and taking advantage of the opportunity. Email readers, continue here…] Next, a critical key issue is finding the way to break-even for a young business – the proxy for stability.

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

The technique, “OST” (objective, strategies and tactics), is a very good way to organize your effort to find guideposts and then develop metrics to measure progress. Create a hosted “software as a service” or “on demand” addition to our product line by end of (next) year. What is a strategy?

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Berkonomics

MAY 25, 2017

Email readers, continue here…]. Assign our development manager to localize design and oversee the needed enhancements to our product and support materials for each new territory. Seed demand in each new territory with at least two corporate marketing events in partnership with each distributor. EMEA, Asia, Latin America.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 3, 2022

Email readers, continue here…] So, consider this: Make “fast” a tool for use as an inducement for particularly important customers or orders, or at times when resources are underutilized. About “scope” with development-related issues. One answer to this puzzle. There are other ways to describe this.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The company’s most valuable technical visionary, the person tasked with staying out in front of new technologies, developing the next generation of new products, and thinking “a mile above the box” is often drawn into working on projects that are incremental to the product and to the existing business. That’s one scenario.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Where’s your bottleneck in production or sales or development?” “If you could invent a solution, what would it be?”. Email readers, continue here…] If you have a better way to do something, create something or market something, you have a head start. Find the pain… Now that’s how to find pain in an industry.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2017

You’re fighting to put out the fires from customer complaints, or incomplete work, or are suffering from an inability to focus upon new development or new customers before cleaning up the mess inside your organization. The customer pays for all or at least 90% of the bill, perhaps holding back a retainer awaiting completion.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

AirCo, a New York-based startup that developed a process to use captured carbon dioxide to make liquor, shifted its efforts to making hand sanitizer for donations in communities in New York City. After that, we’re going to meet the demands of Canada,” INKSmith CEO Jeremy Hedges told the Canadian news outlet Global News.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Over the years, I have often heard the complaint from CEO friends that they have become so swamped by the demands of their growing businesses that they feel themselves further and further from the center of their industry, no longer at the forefront of information and competitive development. The risk of the daily routine. Yes, I know.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Newport Beach-based Sendio , a provider of email and spam protection appliances, has rolled out a new system focused on small businesses, the firm said Monday afternoon. Sendio develops email security tools which reduce spam by requiring sender verification of messages before delivery. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 18, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] I was chairman of a company that had been offered an investment by a Fortune 500 company offering to make a strategic investment in our business, which would be capable of driving new demand to the large company through a series of new web services creating a greater need for the large company’s products.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Verifying Get the latest tech news, straight to your inbox Don't miss out on the top business tech news with Tech.co's weekly highlights reel Please fill in your name Please fill in your email Please verify before subscribing. The one-page site includes very little information other than a list of current team members, all of whom are male.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

First, few startups can use that much money today with all the virtual services available and increasingly inexpensive methods of development, prototyping and marketing. Third (if you’re keeping score), it is not wise to dilute the founder’s ownership greatly in the first round of financing. How does this comport with “skin in the game?”.

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Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2011

All of us are pressed for time, always attempting to balance the overwhelming demands of business with the basic wants and needs of family. In earlier insights, we have examined the need for and care of your corporate vision, and how to develop and nurture that vision through to creation of a corporate culture, goals, strategies and tactics.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This probably isn’t news to developers, but it was news to me when I found out many tech companies still use slave-master language. Meanwhile, we’re seeing ads for Yes on 22 inside on-demand apps. Send me an email at megan@techcrunch.com . Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. You can sign up here.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

Email readers, continue here…] A great idea often fails from the inexperience or inability of management to bring the idea to market. A third demonstration of overcoming market risk is by holding controlled focus groups and gathering information from unbiased potential customers supporting the acceptance of the product or service.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Email readers, continue here…] Take for example, solving key technology problems that prevent a product from shipment, or from scaling to large production. But the real reason to do this is to allow most everything else to fall into place, once the critical issues are worked out. It’s true in every business, all the time.

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Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] Angel investing is rapidly evolving to the same state of development, as a result of networking, industry associations, and deal sharing between angel groups. Very often, the initial opinions of the people around the table are radically different. Raising money'

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

I will repeat my appeal from last week: Maybe you’re a startup founder, a safety driver at an autonomous vehicle developer, a venture capitalist, engineer or gig economy worker. Please reach out and email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, opinions or tips or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Cui was brought on board to start developing the technology product — which Wen says is exactly like an Uber for trucking. Wen says the company has thousands of truckers who have signed up for the service — most of whom are now on a wait list as the company builds up supply before opening the floodgates on the demand side.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

Citing an email sent to Mahalo's "Guides", who develop content for Mahalo, the report said that, so far, the Google changes have led to a "significant dip" in traffic and revenues. The move also includes a suspension of Mahalo's Guides program, which solicited content from freelancers. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Application developers once considered their products as licensed in what would closely be allied to a single sale. Email readers, continue here…] So, the conclusion is that most every business can take advantage of continuing, recurring revenues from its customer base. The massive shift in revenue models in recent years.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Sign up to Tech.co's weekly newsletter today Please fill in your name Please fill in your email Subscribe By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Privacy Policy. And with direct traffic making up 71% of Caledly’s total traffic, demand for the scheduling tool is likely to remain strong into 2024.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2009

Santa Monica-based Userplane , which develops web widgets used by other online community sites, including chat and other collaboration applications, told its users today in an email that the firm's future "remains bright."

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Userplane Newsletter Santa Monica Email 100

Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Are you ahead or behind the market with your product or service? One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Second: Market risk. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This distrust for the scripted message has led to a new demand for unfiltered marketing, and the emergence of business credibility heroes, like Elon Musk, with his bold statements about space travel, and sometime villains, such as Mark Zuckerberg defending Facebook privacy practices. They want the raw data versus a polished message.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Either way, very few startups can afford to forge new markets or create a product that does not fit into an existing class of increasing demand. A story of a company that couldn’t see far enough ahead. The critical question no-one asked.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Either way, very few startups can afford to forge new markets or create a product that does not fit into an existing class of increasing demand. A story of a company that couldn’t see far enough ahead. The critical question no-one asked.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2013

We immediately recall the razor and blade analogy to illustrate the point when planning product development and release. Email readers, continue here.] Think of the portion of fixed overhead covered by recurring revenues.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

First, few startups can use that much money today with all of the virtual services available and increasingly inexpensive methods of development, prototyping and marketing. Email readers, continue here.] Third (if you’re keeping score), it is not wise to dilute the founder’s ownership greatly in the first round of financing.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 6, 2014

Where’s your bottleneck in production or sales or development?” “If you could invent a solution, what would it be?”. Email readers, continue here.] It is the process of leaping from a need to an eloquent solution that creates demand and ultimately success in the marketplace. Dave’s workshops. Starting up'

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As inflation rates spiral and consumer demand takes a hit, business owners are forced to be more mindful of their bottom lines than ever. There's no denying that 2024 is a challenging year to run a business. But whether you're grappling with debt, or looking to expand, accessing third-party financing may be easier than you think.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2022

It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. The participants, not the marketers, are in control, and they are demanding a relationship, not just a marketing message.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Social Media 107

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Enhancing Front-End Product Search We also developed a front-end search tool that revolutionized the way users search for products. In layman's terms, while conventional search mechanisms demand exact phrases or keywords to return relevant results, LLMs can understand and interpret the intent and context behind a query.

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