Berkonomics

APRIL 18, 2024

We have investigated the restrictions imposed by investment documents and the obvious need to keep continuity on the board with the retention of the CEO position at the very least. How about loss of institutional knowledge? How about non-profit boards? How about staggered four-year terms?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I actually really enjoyed many of the points Muhammad made about marketing in general and I found myself nodding through the entirety of the article except for it’s core premise. I believe growth hacking is about all of this. I’d like to make the case that the article is wrong. I’d strongly encourage you to read it.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 11, 2024

How about the size of the board? Email readers, continue here…] Some board members find themselves debating whether there should be an expansion from five to seven, from seven to nine or more to allow for such a mixture of protective seats created by the investment documents and balance with outside board members.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Let’s talk about the reality of taking money from professional investors. The investor organization is granted the seat if the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position. It is not the first time we’ve covered this general subject nor the last.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2012

What is the rule about those pesky non-compete agreements signed upon discharge or sale of the previous company? In that case, you must worry only about information and trade secrets taken from the previous company which are both certainly subject to protection by almost all laws and courts.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2019

We caught up with Brian to hear more about the startup. What I realized, when we started LegalZoom 18 years ago, is there were lots of instances where simple legal documents were enough for people, where they could do those legal filings on their own. It's not about establishing a relationship with a lawyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Now, I’m pretty on the record that being an entrepreneur is about being great at The Do. I’ve talked in the past about how I manage my own creative process. I zone out and think about how things could be different. This is one of the positive signs of ADHD that nobody ever talks about. Startups Are for Doers.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2019

Business ethics are more about religion than management or leadership. Every business has complex and diverse dilemmas which are not specifically covered in documented procedures, so employees need clear values leadership for guidance. For example, people often do not automatically know that they are facing an ethical choice.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service. A year ago, we were around 3.5

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

They write in their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. All other board functions are secondary.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Let’s talk about lawyers… Over the years in business and as a member of over forty boards, I have received good advice from corporate attorneys and on occasion bad advice as well. There is a line that should be drawn in a relationship between corporate attorney and CEO or board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2021

Here are five of the most common examples: Failure to document a Founder agreement at the beginning. Early partners or co-founders often drop out of the picture early due to disagreements, and you forget about them, but they don’t forget about the verbal or email promises you made.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Let’s talk about the reality of taking money from professional investors. The investor organization is granted the seat as long as the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position. It is not the first time we’ve covered this general subject nor the last.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2024

The work continued for about eight weeks between the two of us as we visited the 27 locations and worked with employees in departments across all disciplines within each location and at central offices that performed services for all locations. We were quite confident that our services would yield great, measurable results.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 5, 2021

Investment documents usually call for quarterly reporting by the company to the investors. Usually, one or more of the investors is placed on the board as a requirement of the investment documentation. How these investors try to solve the problem. The entrepreneur often expects that person to keep fellow investors informed.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 20, 2020

You know that the buyer will be crawling the offices with legal and accounting personnel, reviewing contracts, financials, governance documentation, intellectual property, leases, and much more. What about events you can’t control? [Email readers, continue here…] First, should you inform your employees of the deal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Business ethics are more about religion than management or leadership. Every business has complex and diverse dilemmas which are not specifically covered in documented procedures, so employees need clear values leadership for guidance. For example, people often do not automatically know that they are facing an ethical choice.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 30, 2020

If you think about it, you also remember that you spent much more of your time on strategic issues and thinking about the business and its growth, as opposed to thinking within the business about its process issues. Finish the process by refining the resulting document, passing it through the same group for comments.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It wasn’t about paying for service we now expect at no extra cost just about everywhere, it was about a patent that covered that expansive service. I recalled that there was a patent war already in full swing in this very segment, centered about who was first to file a patent in just this use case.

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Jason Nazar

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

You can now Sell Your Documents in our Docstoc Docstore , the premier marketplace to buy and sell professional documents. Upload high quality professional documents. Embed documents you sell through Docstore on your own personal blog to make even more revenue. Upload high quality professional documents.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the business document sharing and online small business site run by Jason Nazar, has gone app happy, saying today that it has launched 30, free iPhone and iPad apps aimed at the small business and entrepreneur market. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How to protect against founder role changes over time: To protect against this, there must be some document in place from the beginning that clearly states the expectation of each founder as to contribution of time and resources to the enterprise. An option plan should carve out an addition of about 15% of the “fully diluted” shares.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 24, 2020

Divergent, the Los Angeles-based startup aiming to revolutionize vehicle manufacturing, has cut about one-third of its staff amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended startups and major corporations alike. “This was about making the company as totally weatherproof as possible,” Czinger said. The company’s No.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2023

Email readers, continue here…] Generative thinkers are relentless in asking questions that get to the core of an idea, often making the originator think more deeply about the effects over a longer period of time. or “How about the public relations impact?” Some ideas sound unbelievably creative – and may be that.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this guide, you'll learn exactly what Claude is, how it works, and all about its parent company, Anthropic. This means it can handle inputs of around 75,000 words, so businesses can submit huge reams of documentation for Claude to analyze. 16K has a context window of about 16,385 tokens. What is Anthropic AI?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Entrepreneurs are all about firsts, and the most important is you making a great first impression – on investors, customers, new team members, and strategic partners. Some people do all the right legwork, but then kill themselves by appearing arrogant or obsequious in the way that they can’t stop talking about everything that they know.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2013

The new feature helps users of the software figure out if, for example, an investor has viewed due diligence documents, or if another party has downloaded and viewed a new agreement. The firm is backed by FF Angel, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, Peter Thiel, and a number of other notable angels.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

From it, I learned about the Flip MinoHD video camera that I can carry around and video my life. I watched a webinar the other day from the King of Video Marketing, Perry Lawrence with guests Sean Malarkey and Lewis Howes called “Mastering YouTube and Video Marketing.&#

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

With smart people, you can’t bluff your way past tough questions, and talking more and louder about your dreams won’t fill the gap of relevant content. Start talking immediately about your project and background. Flaunt how much you know about every subject. Advance homework and preparation is key to every good first impression.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Several times in my investing life, as the final board member making the arrangements to dispose of remaining assets, I have literally been the one to turn out the lights, carry out the documents, books and records to my car, and become the only remaining contact between the failed business and the investors, bankruptcy court, or creditors.

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2020

The company, which has set a preliminary target of about $86 million for its initial public offering, is looking to list on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol “ORIC,” according to documents filed with securities regulators late Friday. ORIC is an acronym for “overcoming resistance in cancer.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

These will put your proposal in the circular file, and even future good opportunities from you may go to the bottom of my list: “Give me a call to hear about an opportunity that can’t fail.” Don’t send investors documents and notes that would be rejected by any high-school teacher. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.”

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 So in our earliest stages we’re about 70% seed and 30% pre-seed. dot-com bonanza.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the online professional document sharing site run by Jason Nazar , is announcing this morning that it has added around 100,000 books and 150,000 documents to the site, as part of a deal with Overdrive.com. Tags: docstoc docstore document professional publishing content ecommerce. READ MORE>>.

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