Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2023

A liquidity event opportunity Several years later, with the approval of the board and entrepreneur, I was able to engage a very well-known potential acquirer of the business who offered an attractive price for the still young but successful enterprise.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. I admit that my writing style back then was a bit more carefree, provocative and opinionated.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

When you first start your career as an investor (or when you first start writing angel checks) your main obsession is “getting into great deals.” That’s return, not exit price of the company. You’re thinking about one bullet at a time. billion When Ring started, even the folks at Shark Tank wouldn’t fund it.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The effort to write a grant request is not trivial. Email readers, continue here…] Grant writing takes skill and immense amounts of time. Often, grants require that you partner with other organizations to deliver the results or measure the effectiveness of your special project. Other sources of grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Here is my edited summary of their ten principles, which I like and may convince you that you don’t need a business plan at all, or at the very least will help you write a better one later: A new venture is a means, not an end. Carry out reality checks and make appropriate plans. The only reliable test is a real one.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Western Digital said the HGST Ultrastar Hs14 features shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology, offers up 40 percent more capacity, and more than twice the sequential write performance of the drive's predecessor. Pricing on the new drive was not announced. WD said the drive has an MTBF of 2.5M READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

There are a lot of factors involved in drug pricing that don’t enter my head when I’m seeing a patient. The three letters “PBM,” for example (pharmacy benefit manager), have never crossed my mind when I’m writing a prescription. Simplistic as this framework is, it goes a long way to describing how we should think about drug pricing.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The company said the software now supports automated check writing and electronic vendor or owner payments in the software, including full service check procesisng where it prints and mails checks for businesses. Pricing on the new features were not announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Amid the hue and cry over the Mylan EpiPen pricing debacle , Hillary Clinton unveiled her “ Plan to Respond to Unjustified Price Hikes for Long-Available Drugs. ” Clinton’s plan calls for “dedicated oversight to protect consumers.” That dependence on price increases won’t change any time soon. It has started.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The WD Blue offers capacities of 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB, and are performance driven, with 545MB/s and 525MB/s sequential read and write speeds. Those drives are not yet available and pricing was not released. The drives start at $79.00.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Successful entrepreneurs are usually hard-driving, and highly focused on some specific goals, like being the dominant player in a given domain, or the low-priced provider of their product. Write it down. On the other hand, most people don’t hesitate to write down excuses. It is vague and insubstantial.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%). New investors sometimes want early investors to put in money to “prove” they have confidence in the new price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Don’t forget business writing and communication. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. Writing a business plan is the only way to determine if you even understand what your dream is all about. Get real experience early.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: gumroad.com Gumroad really started to take off in 2023, smashing revenue records for three months straight, a feat that was attributed to a price hike it carried out at the start of the year. Writesonic Writesonic is an AI writing tool designed to help writers overcome writers block and level up their skills. Gumroad homepage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Indeed, there are some success factors that are common to both environments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. You can be pissed off, but I don’t set prices. That’s stupid.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

The process for retailers and brands to liquidate excess inventory hasn’t changed very much, if at all, and while some retailers were able to build operational infrastructure to service the off-price channels, it continues to be a constant pain point. She went on to write, “Dee and Josh are the exact right team to tackle it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2021

As a startup, cost to rename your company and change existing collateral may be less than dealing with unmatched names or premium domain pricing. Contemplate your available budget, the potential value of the name to you, and the range of possible prices mentioned above. Get the agreement in writing as quickly as possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. I believe the old adage that you don’t know what you don’t know until you try to write it down. A business plan is for you first, not investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

In a bear market executives are paid to: consolidate the number of contracts and renegotiate prices. A seed deal hasn’t already been “priced up” to a range where a new investor might be concerned about the valuation relative to performance. Valuations may have changed and “price discovery” in private markets is harder to determine.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. If we got an offer to raise $25 million to grow would she take it or be too worried about exit price, dilution, valuation expectations, etc. If an accelerator is writing you they’re also writing 25 other VCs.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

“ This will also help dealerships increase sales and bring needed sales tax revenues to local and state governments,” Peterson writes. “Startups and small businesses are the engine of every local and regional economy,” writes Peterson. There’s $25 billion in money set aside for public transit and $12.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2013

.” In the article I discussed the downside of raising capital at a too high of a price and referred people to a previous article I had written encouraging founders to raise “ At the Top end of Normal ” as opposed to stratospheric prices. In the comments section Siqi Chen wrote a great question. Startup Advice'

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Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

I am chairman of a company that, as I write this, is twelve years old and has not yet taken a dollar of outside investment. Grant writing takes skill and immense amounts of time. First, here’s a link to my recent TEDx talk, “Smiling at success; laughing at failure.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Indeed, there are some success factors that are common to both environments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I answered in the same way I always do so I thought I’d just write it publicly. “I I think I’m better at the product stage of a business and helping with strategy, marketing, pricing, feature sets and so forth than I am at evaluating later-stage businesses based on financial results and business metrics and priced accordingly.

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Inverted Software

AUGUST 9, 2021

They outbide all the US based companies I contacted and offered developers at a cheap price. The art of writing quality software is something we have been practicing successfully since 2001 and during this time, have acquired hundreds of customers that understand the Inverted Software difference. The is done by writing modular code.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Facebook parent-company saw its stock price get bludgeoned after a bad earnings report showcased that Apple’s ad-blocking changes are shaving billions off its books and the company’s crown jewel — the Facebook platform — has stopped growing and actually shrank this quarter. Image Credits: Facebook. the big thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Otherwise find an inexpensive class on grant writing. If you still have any connections at the local university, look for some guidance from related subject-matter professors. Professors get grants for research, but they need you for the current focus on commercialization. Seek funding from multiple sources concurrently.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Writing a book is very different from writing a blog. One, I wanted to know what it was like to write a book. In my review of the book, my biggest concern was the rather elevated list price of $49.95. As such, I asked Brad how much input he had in determining the book’s price. “We There were a couple motivations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. I believe the old adage that you don’t know what you don’t know until you try to write it down. A business plan is for you first, not investors.

Startup 174

Startup Writing Entrepreneur Ideas 174

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

I got a call from a VC friend of mine who said, “we’re looking at this deal but can’t write the full check. I decided to write a $2+ million check along with my co-investor who offered $750k. The company agreed on a price but felt it was a bit lower than they had hoped for. I think you should look at it.”

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Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

This risk can be mitigated by finding a customer willing to purchase as soon as a proven model is completed, and willing to state this in writing. Will the public respond in numbers to buy, license or rent your offering? And fifth: Competitive risk. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. Mostly kidding.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 29, 2017

Several years later, with the approval of the board and entrepreneur, I was able to engage a very well-known potential acquirer of the business who offered an attractive price for the still-young but successful enterprise. Mother is surely satisfied as a passive investor who probably would have given her son the money without structure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

I wrote my version here and Scott wrote an excellent write-up of his views here. We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based]. Each of the two videos is about 10 minutes long.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

As a result I’ve really resisted writing about negotiations. Sometimes I even say, “I will change price / terms if I need to. If I forget to write, “Don’t Negotiation Piecemeal” after that then remind me. Your job is to offer a price (or terms) and walk. submitting term sheets.

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