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Be careful about equity and options!

Berkonomics

Some rules about stock options and phantom stock: [Email readers, continue here…] The real insight here is that stock options or phantom stock are the tools of early-stage businesses used to attract great talent when there is not enough cash to pay market rates. Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here.

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Can you guess 10 tests for your success?

Berkonomics

Your success must be based upon data that is solid and sometimes flexible enough to pass several critical tests if it is to guide a business enterprise to greatness. Email readers, continue here…] Have you created high barriers to entry? Do you have a world-class management team?

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So, what’s a company board good for, anyway?

Berkonomics

If you are responsible for forming a board, managing it, or evaluating its collective performance, consider these three important modes of engagement as you guide… Generative thinking: Do you have board members who often ask “why?” Today, we cover an ideal board’s collective mindset. or “What if…” Or “What are the alternatives?” Generative.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

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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Square Sellers Will Get Apple’s ‘Tap to Pay’ on iPhones This Year

Tech.Co

If your own business is in a place to buy a brand new iPhone, the Tap to Pay feature is worth activating — but given how many customers will pay with a non-contactless card or phone anyway, you'll still need a card reader to avoid missing out on sales.

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What’s a company board good for, anyway?

Berkonomics

If you are responsible for forming a board, managing it, or evaluating its collective performance, consider these three important modes of engagement as you guide…. Which leads us to the second class of creative board thinking…. Today, we cover an ideal board’s collective mindset. or “What if…” Or “What are the alternatives?”

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Careful about equity and options in early stage businesses

Berkonomics

And then there are options: [Email readers, continue here…] Stock options or phantom stock are the tools of early stage businesses used to attract great talent when there is not enough cash to pay market rates. Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here.

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