Berkonomics

APRIL 26, 2018

But when money is the issue, your time, energy and focus are drained from other important areas of your life or business. Running out of money is not always synonymous with “going broke”. Many great businesses in their growth periods find themselves stretched for cash.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2019

But what if you believe so strongly in your budding enterprise that this seems to be the most ill-advised directive you’ve ever heard? Here’s a question that should strike close to home. Professional investors like to quote this mantra to anyone who will listen. Fail fast,” they say. Could you pivot to save the company?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2019

But what if you believe so strongly in your budding enterprise that this seems to be the most ill-advised directive you’ve ever heard? Here’s a question that should strike close to home. Professional investors like to quote this mantra to anyone who will listen. Fail fast,” they say. Could you pivot to save the company?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

His imagination of what is wrong with VC has captured perfectly in satirical format what ails our industry. Because the videos show exactly what life would be like if a young Elon Musk came to pitch VCs today and said I want to transform P2P finance, get people driving electric cars and send a man to mars in our lifetime.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

What Can You Do if a VC Pulls Their Term Sheet? I’m just writing verbatim what I wrote in a Quora response years ago. So, what can you do? I was asked to answer this exact question on Quora and I did so some time ago. Sorry for using f**k two posts in a row. Legal actions = zero. Retribution actions = lots. But why bother.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2011

The powerful words are “What if…” followed by an ever-deeper question that follows the possible results of an action, or a decision based upon the last “What if” question. One stated that he asked “what if” the U.S. What if” are two very powerful words when used together.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. What’s their specific need/pain? Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? What level of funding do you currently have? What are your big milestones?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 15, 2016

Saturday, August 20, 2016 -- TEDxSantaBarbara. Must apply to attend. See https://tedxsantabarbara.com/.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

What does the business do? Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Startup Metrics with Dave McClure Dave McClure has a great presentation on Startup Metrics where he points to some additional metrics that are useful to consider: A : Acquisition - Where / what channels do users come from?

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here is what we've learned: Understanding your needs Identifying the skills you truly need is paramount as different firms boast distinct skill sets. Here's what to consider Experience and Portfolio: What type of projects has the company completed? Understand exactly what the company contributed to each project.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 -- If I Knew Then What I Know Now. So we have asked an experienced panel of entrepreneurs and advisors to share some of the things they may have done differently if they knew then what they know now. TechbizConnection. When venturing out on your own, there is no manual to guide you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2021

Let me start by explaining what I mean about “mental psyche.” What I never expected of Peloton was how much of the amazing experience was MENTAL as well as physical. Peloton lifted my mental spirits in 2019/2020 through what were two emotionally draining years in the world (fires, protests, politics, he who shall not be named, etc).

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Frank Addante

MAY 21, 2013

What would your company do if you declared a day without email or instant messenger? Businesses ran before email. Sure, not as efficiently, but I often wonder if that forced better prioritization. Remember – activity doesn’t equal results. Once a month, we now have RTT (Real-Time Talking) Events at our office.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

What does a business leader do in this situation? But what does the right team look like? A technical review can help you decide what team will work best both with you and for you. How it Works – The Review that’s Right For You We know what a review can do for you. But only you know what you really need.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? What does the role demand? More on the Role of the Startup CTO Eric Ries, a great resource, answers the question What Does a Startup CTO actually do? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? Increasing competitive advantage? And how can you tell?

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Strategic Technical Advisor looks at the business and determines what makes sense from a technology perspective in the short-term and longer-terms. And Maybe You Need Two! Actually, many startups need two kinds of technical advisors. Do you have access to and ownership of the source code?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2023

What can you prove as a barrier to entry for competitors? 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. Here in brief are ten tests for your business success. Where in industry life cycle? How large a total market?

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As part of the onboarding process, the app asks both job seekers and employers what they’re looking for - in a text box - while providing a few suggestions in a pop-up. Happy customers mean happy CEOs and founders - and that’s what makes us happy. If they like the content as-is, they can keep it; if not, they can change it.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Your four WHAT questions…. What is the problem, the marketplace, the value added? What is the urgent need, the reason people will pay, the positive effect upon the enterprise by making this happen? What if we could do it better, do it in a new way, do it to attract new customers, do it to distance ourselves form the competition?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 11, 2024

What about multiple investor rounds? There were no outside board members with industry experience, no members the CEO trusted with governance backgrounds, no scientists to evaluate the technology that is the core asset of the corporation. A recipe for failure.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. We drew this conclusion after a meeting we had with Morgan Stanley where they showed us historical 15 & 20 year valuation trends and we all discussed what we thought this meant.

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2023

But if the departing employee is even a little bit reticent to tell of his or her plans, the result is the first stage of what could become an outright war between you and a newly separated past employee, sent away that day with an escort out the door. What could you do if your company secrets are compromised?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

The post What do you give up when you take outside investors? The newest investor has the power. Draconian terms? They tolerate you and your management when the numbers are a bit murky but with an explanation that is believable and correctable. They act in their own best interests when things go south. That’s just the facts.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 9, 2022

What struck me is how he defined the three: ‘What you can do, what you should do, and what you want to do.’. What if all of us used this as our filter when making business decisions? What if all of us used this as our filter when making business decisions? Remember that this was a book about politics.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

What if we fire an employee before the nineth day? Why not conduct your own survey of fellow executives and managers and see what they think. and the usual second move. A month or so later, when no apparent change has been noticed, we may move from coaching to a polite warning and maybe even the dreaded note-to-file.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That question should receive a thorough airing Thursday, when a meeting of FDA outside advisors will weigh a recommendation of the one-shot gene therapy, which is meant to cure a rare eye disease that leads inevitably to blindness. If approved—the FDA’s approval deadline is January 18—the Spark drug would be the first medicine to.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

Just two weeks into it we are just starting to come to grips with what will no doubt wreak big financial, emotional and obviously dire health consequences and suffering for many. It feels a bit like choosing a fork in the road amidst dense fog and with nobody to guide us what to do. What do we eat? What is safe?

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The critical question… I asked the CEO to imagine what the company would look like if all those bonus-expensive items were completely achieved in one year. What is the general rule for such a bonus plan? My obvious retort: “Then why not offer this candidate the moon if he can achieve this?” Have you experienced this in your business?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2024

What is flexibility worth in higher cost? It is statistically true that at least half of the young companies funded by angel or venture investors will not survive three years from funding to demise, and more than that percentage will die with two years if not well financed. Or honoring a personal guarantee if the company cannot pay.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Here’s the question: Wouldn’t it be great if there were no more digital or printed reports to tell us what happened in the past? Email readers, continue here…] But what if you could develop changes in your business processes so that information, even big data, would be available and analyzed for exceptions almost instantly?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2023

Five years had passed since my original investment in what I now clearly perceived as investment into a lifestyle business, one where the entrepreneur had no interest in selling or sharing. And yet, in an earlier post, we spoke of the problems that come when taking unstructured investments from friends and family. Trust works both ways.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

Along with your details, you’ll need to write a “compelling essay” between 100-500 words in length explaining why you want to participate in their contest and what you think you’ll get from digitally detoxing for a month. Want to browse the web privately? ? Or appear as if you're in another country?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We ask ourselves “what if?”. Pilot-authors tell their stories in the first person, and all of us readers slow down to think while reading of these events, wondering “what if” or whether this could happen to me. So, what if that startup could not have raised funds? And these were emotional experiences to say the least.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

What is your culture? And what does it say about your corporate culture and your individual management style? How do you teach your work force that mistakes are OK as long as they learn and don’t repeat them? By being a visible example. If the CEO can do this, he gives permission for anyone to confess as well,” he states.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 19, 2020

Great executives and managers seem to intuitively know what they don’t know. But it is not at all uncommon to not even know what questions to ask. What could follow? Scenario planning: “What if?”. But what if no-one thinks of the right questions? What if no one knows what to ask?

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The post What are the costs of taking investor money? But this time, we concentrate upon governance changes. Email readers, continue here…] Almost always, professional investors, including angel groups and venture capitalists, also require at least one seat on the corporate board. Why these restrictions?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What can you tell us about MuteSix as an agency? We started out as a Facebook ad agency — as opposed to a lot of agencies that start out by saying they do everything, we decided to focus on what we were really good at. What type of clients do you work with? Image Credits: MuteSix. And then bit by bit, we grew the organization.

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