Berkonomics

APRIL 1, 2021

My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments. Investors most often celebrate teams that quickly find flaws in the original plan and reallocate resources in another direction before more wasted resources. My story of a great pivot.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 12, 2018

Minimum wage laws, workplace safety, independent contractor tests, minimum hours required for benefits, overtime rules, discrimination protections, worker compensation insurance requirements and more are examples of such laws. Encourage reviewers to be accurate, not just polite, in documenting areas of concern.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2017

But the problem was solved, and response times returned to “immediate” for at least this class of customer call. Email readers, continue here…] But “There’s the rub” (the snag) wrote Shakespeare in Hamlet. It took several months to hire and train enough new support reps to keep up with the rapid growth of our company.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before. Email readers, continue here…] Yes, Amazon is partially to blame. For example, 81% of businesses hiring today want graduates with business or accounting degrees. Thought so. Worse, 3.1%

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Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2020

An example to make this clear. Email readers, continue here…] In an Internet-based business, power comes not just from high gross margins, but also from an increase in the percent of conversions. There is amazing leverage in high gross profit margins once a company is past breakeven.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Email readers continue here…] It is one of the most vital elements of good management – restraining oneself when rank would ordinarily grant special privilege, and instead acting as one would expect a subordinate to act. Everything you do as a manager is watched by one or many.

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2016

In my early journalism classes, I was taught the five “W’s” of good news stories, and that most should be in the first paragraph at that. I’ve recently experienced an example of this. Who, what, when, where and why are the five, with sometimes a “how” thrown in for those followers of the macabre.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 6, 2022

Promissory notes come before any equity, and most late equity investments come before early equity investments, even of the same class of security. Here’s an example that will make your heart skip a beat. This makes for some head-rubbing when attempting to calculate the return on investment with a proposed sale.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments. Investors celebrate teams that quickly find the flaws in the original plan and reallocate resources in another direction before more wasted effort.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] “You will be successful at our company!” For example, most of us expect a salesperson to be truly productive only after about six months of building a territory or client base. How about teaching a class in corporate culture yourself to one or more new employees? the fortune states.

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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.

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Berkonomics

MAY 27, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] Each board member is legally tasked with two duties: the duty of care, and the duty of loyalty: care for the living entity that is the corporation itself, and loyalty not to the board member’s constituency, but to the corporation itself. What are the legal responsibilities of board members?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For example, a 100-knot plane flying into a 50-knot headwind and using 8 gallons of fuel per hour uses double the fuel , (16 gallons) and takes twice as long to the destination as with no wind. A pilot flying with the wind behind is helped by the speed of the wind and uses less fuel and less time to make it to the destination.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For example, a 100-knot plane flying into a 50-knot headwind and using 8 gallons of fuel per hour uses double the fuel , (16 gallons) and takes twice as long to the destination as with no wind. A pilot flying with the wind behind is helped by the speed of the wind and uses less fuel and less time to make it to the destination.

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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).

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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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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2011

For example, a 100 knot plane flying into a 50 knot headwind and using 8 gallons of fuel per hour uses double the fuel , (16 gallons) and takes twice as long to the destination as with no wind. Email readers, continue here.] One flying into the wind uses double the difference in both fuel (money) and time. That’s a valuable lesson.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2010

Email readers continue here.] It took several months to hire and train enough new support reps to keep up with the rapid growth of our company. But the problem was solved, and response times returned to “immediate” for at least this class of customer call. The smaller the company, the more is at stake.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. In Art Of The Start , you encourage your readers to be responsive and to strive to return emails within 24-hours. He is a great example of…building an enchanting company. I think Google+ is a great, great mechanism for enchanting people.”.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

The videos on our web site have some proprietary techniques you can't find elsewhere, and we have thousands of heavy science videos on the site -- everything from Nobel prize winners, to National Geographic, to class videos on science and related to science, and even to things students are doing in high school.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

You imagined him as the kid in your class at school at the front of the room raising his hand at every question and saying, “Oooh, me. Other tech examples: People constantly come up to me and tell me they want to start “becoming a line” which is shorthand for my post “ Lines, not Dots. Call on me.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. Example: I was recently in China and had three public appearances. Zone of Effectiveness – The examples that Covey talks about here are things like exercise and planning.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 29, 2013

In searching for world-class examples of public responses to irate customers'' complaints, I found one that emanated from an unlikely place, Savusavu, Fiji. You operate your business from a small boat in the remote waters of northern Fiji and your customers are spread across the globe, residing in the US, Europe and Asia.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

For our readers who haven't heard of the Progressive Automotive X Prize, can you talk about what it's all about? They have to be able to have a 200 mile range in the mainstream class, and 100 miles in the alternate. Some of the vehicle teams are already in negotiations with folks like General Motors, for example.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz? It's really bringing in more and more world class celebrities, and let them talk to their friends in a new and unique manner, and generate revenue for them. And, we will be launching more and more new products. Thanks, and good luck!

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Explain to our readers why you started your company, and why you created your app myLINGO. Share with our readers your experience surrounding the launch of the app. Explain to our readers what you learned from seeing myLINGO in action. Can you share with our readers how you came to define or identify yourself as an entrepreneur?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Let me give you an example. 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. I said as much in my post that 73.6%

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Obviously they wish they would have figured this out a bit more quickly, but as a young team I personally cut them a little bit more slack than I would if it were Oracle, for example. Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. Good PR will help you punch above your weigh class.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The original spark came, because my daughter, Naomi, who is six and was in first grade at the time, took a Lego Robotics class. That allows pre-readers to play, and also any kid in any part of the world can play the game, because there are no language issues. So, for example, to make your character jump, there's a jumping character.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 15, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] It started me thinking. For example, most of us expect a salesperson to be truly productive only after about six months of building a territory or client base. How about teaching a class in corporate culture yourself to one or more new employees?

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Here’s an example: First, a brand-new enterprise is often formed from the efforts of several “partners”, each with an expertise valued by the others. If there is only one class of stock, the same as the founders, and the appraisal of the single class of shares yields, say $2.00

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The irony is that currently both these onetime best in class companies are now in deep trouble. The result is that I, the reader, had no interest in what was being sold in the ad yet I am a consumer in both verticals. On opposite pages were two ads for two very large companies. How does that happen?

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Berkonomics

MARCH 17, 2016

Let’s break this down into two examples using Bob and John. Email readers, continue here…] John asked the same questions, but for very different reasons. Federal and state governments have what is called “Protected Classes.” For example, assume Sally’s religious beliefs include that she cannot work on Sundays.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] Each board member is legally tasked with two duties: the duty of care, and the duty of loyalty: care for the living entity that is the corporation itself, and loyalty not to the board member’s constituency, but to the corporation itself. The average board for a company taking outside investment money is five.

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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. If you want a sense of their content, an example is their “Epic Rap Battles of History” channel including Stephen Hawkins vs. We have nearly 10% unemployment in this country and nearly 18% structural unemployment. Americans watch 5.3

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

You can fly first class and not talk to fellow passengers. Examples in My Life & Work. my tribute to Cory Van Wolvelaere & challenge to readers). The great irony is that the more success you have in life the more likely you are to be pulled on to the wrong side of the Haimish line. You can stay in super exclusive hotels.

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