Berkonomics
APRIL 17, 2025
Here is one that is so important to the continued health of a growing company that it cannot be overstated. Its a bit complex for novices. But hang in there as I explain a bit about accounting classification of assets and liabilities. Differences between types of assets and liabilities First, lets be sure we know what is short in term and what is long in term.
Startup San Diego
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Were wrapping up 2024 and were excited to announce the newest partnerships for Startup San Diego! Weve renewed our partnership with TiE San Diego and introduced The School of Young […] The post Newest Partnerships for 2024 – TiE San Diego & The School of Young Entrepreneurs (SofYE) appeared first on Startup San Diego.
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AllTopStartups
MARCH 4, 2025
You want to sell your Los Angeles home fast. Cash home buyers offer a direct, no-frills approach that gets you moving quicklyno endless listings or showings. They present offers, pay… The post Cash Home Buyers in Los Angeles: How They Work appeared first on AllTopStartups.
Berkonomics
MARCH 20, 2025
Money in the bank is like oil in the car. Certainly, you have many ways you are pulled every day, both tactical and strategic. 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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Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.
TechEmpower
MARCH 17, 2025
As the Director for Open Source Solutions at TechEmpower, I am excited to share the latest results from our Framework Benchmark suite. This round marks significant improvements overall, as our sponsor Microsoft has generously provided new hardware that is making jaw-dropping performance improvements. New Hardware and Upgrades Our new setup includes updated servers and network hardware: ProLiant DL360 Gen10 Plus servers Intel Xeon Gold 6330 CPU @ 2.00GHz (56 cores) 64GB of memory Mellanox Technol
Tech.Co
DECEMBER 10, 2024
From climbing interest rates to nationwide labor shortages, it’s safe to say 2024 hasn’t been an easy year to be a business owner. As a result, maintaining a healthy cash flow has become an even more central pillar for businesses, whether they’re just starting out or looking to expand. If you’re interested in futureproofing your finances – and aren’t a fan of the strict liability criteria and high borrowing costs that come with traditional loans – busine
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StartUp Beat
DECEMBER 17, 2024
XeneX, Inc., a leader in Security Operations Center as a Service (SOCaaS) for threat hunting, detection, and response, today announced a new Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) partnership for the Healthcare industry with Vorro. This partnership offers healthcare providers and their partners access to the enterprise integration, and cybersecurity managed services needed for business […] The post Vorro, XeneX, Inc.
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
How do you value pre-revenue companies? Last time we examined ten different ways to value companies already in revenue, usually beyond the early stage. Now we tackle the more difficult and subjective task of placing a value upon those startups that don’t fit into that mold. For those of us who’ve invested in early-stage companies, especially technology startups, we have confronted a universal problem.
Startup San Diego
APRIL 3, 2025
1st Mondays is a quarterly event that brings over 250+ startup community members together for a night of networking, connections, community building, and innovation. Were excited to introduce seven San […] The post Meet the Exhibitors for the Upcoming 1st Mondays – April 2025 appeared first on Startup San Diego.
Startup San Diego
MARCH 19, 2025
Were excited to announce the featured speakers and panelists joining us for the upcoming 1st Mondays – Networking and Expert Panel presented by San Diego Community Power, happening April 7th […] The post Announcing the 1st Mondays Featured Panelists & Speakers April 2025 appeared first on Startup San Diego.
Startup San Diego
DECEMBER 5, 2024
On Monday, December 2nd, Startup San Diego hosted its signature quarterly event, 1st Mondays – Networking & Lightning Talks at the Cooley LLP headquarters in Torrey Pines. This end-of-the-year celebration […] The post December 1st Mondays – Networking & Lightning Talks Recap appeared first on Startup San Diego.
Startup San Diego
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
On February 19th, 2025 our developer and startup community came together for the first edition of the FirstWave Innovator HackNight, presented by Neo4j. This event welcomed over 250+ attendees at […] The post StartupSD FirstWave Innovator HackNight presented by Neo4j Recap appeared first on Startup San Diego.
Startup San Diego
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Congratulations to the five groundbreaking startups selected to take center stage at the Hack Your Heart Out – FirstWave Innovator HackNight presented by Neo4j happening February 19th from 3:30 PM […] The post Five Selected Startups to Participate in FirstWave Innovator HackNight appeared first on Startup San Diego.
Startup San Diego
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
In the first LinkedIn Tech Report show of 2025, Startup San Diego’s Vice Chair Cheryl Goodman, along with technology co-chair Ping Wang and Neo4j’s Developer Advocate Jason Koo, announced exciting […] The post Startup San Diego Tech Report Episode 5 – FirstWave Innovator HackNight & Startup Ecosystem Calendar 2025 appeared first on Startup San Diego.
Startup San Diego
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Get ready to push the boundaries of innovation at the Hack Your Heart Out, FirstWave Innovator HackNight presented by Neo4j at Intuit on Wednesday, February 19th, from 3:30 PM – […] The post Introducing our Technical Partners for the Upcoming FirstWave Innovator HackNight appeared first on Startup San Diego.
Startup San Diego
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
For the last 1st Mondays of the year, we’re doing something a little different. Introducing, lightning talks! The theme of the night will be Naughty Problems, Nice Ideas: Innovating for […] The post Confirmed Lightning Talks Speakers for December 1st Mondays – Networking & Social Innovation appeared first on Startup San Diego.
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Every investor or lender wants regular information from companies taking their money. And most of us are frustrated by the lack of regular communication – unless the company needs more money. On the other side, entrepreneurs and CEOs usually have a natural fear of giving too much information to investors and bankers after the initial amounts have been received.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Use stock options and warrants to pay for service only rarely. Earlier, I stated that stock options are the currency of early-stage business. This truth is obvious when a start-up has no cash. So, we will assume a business is perhaps well beyond start-up and growing, but that cash is tight, used for growth and for working capital as earned. There are times when services of others are available for stock instead of – or in addition to cash.
Berkonomics
APRIL 10, 2025
Well, you may not be alone. Many executives and managers have made the mistake of using the financial and sales forecast to plan and execute hiring of new employees – so that they could be trained and up to speed when the demand arrives. The balance between preparedness and cost Although hiring early does add to overhead by bringing employees aboard before they become economic contributors to the bottom line, there is much to be said about consistent or improved service quality by having t
Berkonomics
MARCH 6, 2025
A punch in the gut Small companies most often scrape by with borrowed or invested funds, doing everything possible to grow and prosper with limited resources. So, it is like a punch in the gut when an employee makes a claim against the company for a perceived or actual violation of a law or regulation. Or when a former employee strikes out with a suit claiming discrimination for one of a thousand causes.
Berkonomics
APRIL 3, 2025
Place your cash bets behind proven demand! The term, demand pull cost push was created by the great economist, John Maynard Keynes, to describe the two primary drivers of economic inflation. Demand pull : too much demand for a product or service and not enough supply cause competition for the product that drives prices higher without increasing the intrinsic value of the product.
Berkonomics
MARCH 27, 2025
The four basic dials to turn: There are four basic ways to increase the cash position of a company: 1) inject cash through borrowing or investment, 2) decrease spending or payments on debt, (3) increase efficiency of operations, and 4) increase revenues or advance payments from customers. with one warning: Even before examining the tactics of cash flow management, weve got to acknowledge that you never, ever should slip on payment of payroll taxes.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Is it the law of most states? This is one that early-stage CEOs are almost universally unaware of. Most every state requires that any company with employees be covered by a policy of insurance against claims by workers for injury on the job, or worker compensation insurance. Many states have privately owned – but state-overseen -state insurance funds for this purpose, and of course a number of private companies offer such insurance alone or along with business package policies.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
I expect that you have a story about how insurance saved you lots of money in your past. And of course, thats the purpose of paying for policies when you think youll never need them. So, here comes the fact: Business insurance is one of the more poorly managed mitigations of risk in small and many medium sized corporations, often because of failure to assign the responsibility to an individual or department, and sometimes just from the willingness to bet against the event and save cash.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Thoughts from BERKONOMICS – Dave Berkus After 50 years in entrepreneurship and 200+ startup investments, here’s what most first-time founders get dangerously wrong: They obsess over the wrong metrics. The five most important metrics I’ve watched brilliant ideas fail because founders tracked vanity numbers while ignoring the real drivers of sustainable growth.
Berkonomics
JANUARY 30, 2025
Your valuable resources are often missed. Whether you find advisors from family, friends, faculty or fellow managers, great advisors can become an informal resource that rivals that of more formal resources, including board members. You will certainly know when youve found such a treasure, almost always through introduction by others and rarely because you have deliberately approached someone to fill a needed hole.
Berkonomics
JANUARY 23, 2025
So, youre managing all that work, all those interruptions, all those texts and pesky emails. You get home or stop your reading at some reasonable hour, kind of tired, and need a recharge. Sound familiar? Well, thats probably because youve wasted a significant portion of your time on tasks others could have done effectively. So, where do you get those sparks of genius that could change your company and change the world?
Berkonomics
JANUARY 16, 2025
Consider your core. It is the one skill, process or advantage you have over your competition. Then think of all the things you do to surround that core with people and assets that complete your company and allow you to release your product or perform your service. Which of your IP assets are your core? Now consider how many of those surrounding assets and services are really necessary for you to perform in order to protect and grow your core.
Berkonomics
JANUARY 9, 2025
Consider your core It is the one skill, process or advantage you have over your competition. Then think of all the things you do to surround that core with people and assets that complete the company and allow you to release your product or perform your service. Dont diminish the effectiveness of AI in your decision. Well discuss that next below. Now consider how many of those surrounding assets and services are necessary for you to perform to protect and grow your core.
Berkonomics
JANUARY 2, 2025
How do you manage a great business, as opposed to being a survivor? Well, here are the four areas you should focus upon every day. Now, some of us remember things better when given a catchy phrase or rhyme. So, heres one to help you with squeezing the most out of your own available resources. In this new reality in our business world, there is certainly little room for mistakes and no room for bloat within our companies.
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Be careful about investor rights This important variation on money talks is an important consideration for entrepreneurs when seeking an investment from professionals such as VCs. Something like a marriage (and often lasting just as long statistically), your investment partner can be a great cheerleader, coach and resource. But the moment things turn sour, including missed plans, some investors on company boards go into a predictable mode of dictating terms for emergency loans or additional inve
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 19, 2024
We investors see this all the time. An entrepreneur pitches using a deck with no slide for competition. When asked (as we always do), the response is This is new. We have no competition. Niet! No! Unh unh. Professional investors laugh when they hear an entrepreneur come out with that one. That statement has killed more investment deals than almost any other.
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Heres a case study for yourself: Recently I was asked to review an offer letter for a senior director of business development. The CEO was concerned that he was offering far too much in the form of incentive compensation, with bonuses that could greatly exceed the base salary if all the bonus items were achieved. 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.
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Sooner or later, you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment. What VC’s can and cannot do First, VCs in general cannot invest in ‘S’ corporations or limited liability companies (LLC’s).
Tech.Co
JANUARY 7, 2025
Whether you like or loathe January, it’s the perfect month to hit the reset button and plan for the year ahead. If cash flow issues are on your mind, and you want to avoid credit cycles that can emerge from high-interest business loans , applying for business grants can be a great way to secure the funding you need to thrive in 2025. Alongside a cash prize, lots of grant programs offer additional resources and guidance, making them especially useful for businesses making their first steps.
Tech.Co
MARCH 6, 2025
If your business requires a cash injection, but you don’t want to risk falling into debt cycles from private loans , it might be time to consider business grants. By providing crucial funding for specific projects, and giving your business much-needed visibility, grants can be a great way to take your venture to the next level. It only takes a couple of minutes to apply to most opportunities too, allowing you to throw your hat in the ring without investing heaps of time and energy.
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