Tech.Co

JUNE 3, 2022

With it, customers can quickly use contactless payment, giving consumers an easier shopping experience while helping sellers use the Square system with even less friction. Their system genuinely is top of the class for any small business, so it's worth considering with or without Tap to Pay.

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News Newsletter Sales Tips 155

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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Resource Acquisition Class Help 156

Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

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. Which leads us to the second class of creative board thinking…. These are generative thinking questions. Generative.

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Company Companies Ideas Competition 243

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] “You will be successful at our company!” For a salesperson, how about paying an override commission to another sales person for a short period to help find and close new business? Or how about helping the employee gain confidence by handing the first several accounts to the new person ready to close?

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Startup Email Class Examples 207

Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2018

There are five major classes or niches a company should examine and make its own in calculating positioning in the marketplace. Here are a few examples to help you. Email readers, continue here…] WalMart is known for lowest prices, often for identical merchandise found in other stores for more. The five major niches.

Pricing 226

Pricing Competition Examples Class 226

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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. If the market is moving quickly toward your class of product or service, you may be able to gain a piece just by being there at the right time with the right product or service.

Marketing 120

Marketing Class Startup Research 120

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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. If the market is moving quickly toward your class of product or service, you may be able to gain a piece just by being there at the right time with the right product or service.

Marketing 120

Marketing Class Startup Research 120

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. Drop Everything And Do What Your Boss Asks.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

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. 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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Journal Acquisition Class News 136

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. In a cutout, some percentage, usually fifteen or twenty percent of the total sale, is allocated to management to continue operations through the closing period and help in closing the sale.

Venture Capital 156

Venture Capital Sales Pricing Equity 156

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Although this debate will continue for ages, I tend to fall on the side of betting on the jockey, simply because it has been a rare business plan that did not change again and again seeking a successful model in the marketplace. Concentrate on a world class team. Concentrate on a world class team.

Venture Capital 120

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Ideas Summary 120

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Although this debate will continue for ages, I tend to fall on the side of betting on the jockey, simply because it has been a rare business plan that did not change again and again seeking a successful model in the marketplace. Concentrate on a world class team. Concentrate on a world class team.

Venture Capital 120

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Ideas Summary 120

Berkonomics

APRIL 28, 2016

But things have gotten much more complicated lately, partly because of the Uber, Lyft and other new generation of workers and the best description of their class as “semi–independent.”. The IRS helps a bit by providing form SS–8 which can be submitted to the IRS for a pre–determination of the status of a worker.

Class 120

Class Training Email Tool 120

Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

Marketing is a science devised to help drive customers to your door. Email readers, continue here.] I= increase revenues. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. There are lots of ways to define how to market well, including the four P’s of marketing (1): product, price, promotion and place.

Marketing 201

Marketing Demand Pricing Customer 201

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We caught up with Sam Teller , who is directing efforts at the accelerator, to help fill entrepreneurs in on where the program fits in the world of technology and startup acceleration. For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? It was really just something built for the community to help support entrepreneurs.

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number investor classes into one. It is most often a win-win for both you and the strategic partner.

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Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

After an Adviser at his Cupertino High School told Nithin and his fellow Freshmen classmates about a school in Kenya that needed help with their educational facilities, Nithin, along with another student, created Kenya Dream and ran it as Co-Presidents. We’re helping out an entire small village. Our last project is a big one.

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UCI Class Southern California News 259

Berkonomics

JUNE 12, 2014

We should think of the creation and growth of a high valued company as the sum of three parts, with three distinct classes of participants helping to make real value out of a raw start-up. Email readers, continue here.] First, there is the entrepreneur , the visionary, and force behind the venture from start to finish.

Startup 214

Startup Equity Invest Class 214

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies.

Southern California 100

Southern California News Platform Class 100

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2011

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. 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. .

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Class Product Marketing Demand 149

Berkonomics

MARCH 3, 2016

Email readers, continue here…] We brainstormed with a consultant and each other. One idea kept rising to the top of our list: abandoning our Class A office space which had been designed and decorated with great love. It was much more than an office.

Layoffs 120

Layoffs Ideas Email Social Network 120

Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2010

Much of the rest of the presentation is devoted to explaining to the group the causes for the concerns and offering information for the group to use in the feedback session to help the CEO seek solutions and to provide resources to the CEO for that purpose. Email readers continue here.]

Class 120

Class Organization Customer Custom 120

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Promissory notes come before any equity, and most late equity investments come before early equity investments, even of the same class of security. Most sophisticated investors will take either a promissory note or preferred stock, both of which come before founder or management stock in a sale or liquidation.

Angel 120

Angel Sales Pricing Equity 120

Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2011

Even with the usual discount of 10%, the margins on hardware were high, especially when applied to prices that exceeded $30,000 per sale. . In the early eighties, IBM helped the PC become a tool of the office, and the product crossed over from use by early adopters to the mass market. Email readers, continue here.]

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Pricing Networking IBM IBM 184

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.

Journal 124

Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

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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Equity Class Pricing Sales 156

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. What tips can you share to help emerging entrepreneurs be as responsive?

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz? Did those prior entertainment relationships help to get those celebrities to work with you? They are incredibly supportive, get what we're doing like crazy, and have been extremely helpful and also have very deep relationships.

Entertainment 159

Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

We help companies reward their employees with perks. We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class. I encourage your readers join (BetterWorks), we’ll hook them up with a discount. 6) Paige, why does the world need BetterWorks? . “We Perks are one of the most cost effective ways for a company to recruit and retain employees.

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Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. It doesn’t help you. Startups often have advisors that help on recruiting, fund raising, biz dev, sales, etc. Help them with other stories. Good PR will help you punch above your weigh class.

Startup 329

Startup Press Training Media 329

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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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

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. how can we create an angle that will interest readers? He is clearly intellectually very smart yet simplifying to “software is eating the world” helped him better deliver his message.

Entrepreneur 370

Entrepreneur Startup Press Venture Capital 370

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? It's the control systems that help monitor the effective use and provide energy to the vehicle when it's most required, but not when it's not required. Thanks for the time this morning.

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Competition Southern California Technology Class 153

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Just 20 years old and a recent Harvard University dropout, Olenka provided insight into her transition to Los Angeles, life as an entrepreneur, and how she’s passionate about helping non-English speakers see American movies in their own native language. Explain to our readers why you started your company, and why you created your app myLINGO.

Startup 91

Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Most investment bankers will coach you into helping them find you a strategic buyer, knowing that such sales are quicker, often less focused upon the small warts of a business, and yield higher prices than financial sales. There is a third class of buyer I discovered first hand when selling my company – the emotional buyer.

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Pricing Sales IBM IBM 600

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. So even though I swore we wouldn’t do it, we cut off the process early when we realized how aligned our team was with Accel and how much the team felt Accel could help with our growth. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Email readers continue here.] There are several classes of obligations and several types of providers within each. Often last are the lawyers and accountants who protect you and help you to plan your recovery, only because they above all others are vested with you in your recovery and success. Accelerating revenues comes next.

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Services Statistics Startup .Net 159