Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 17, 2023
Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements to their own team, to investors, and even to customers.
Berkonomics
MARCH 16, 2023
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
If you really want to start a business your way without a boss or professional investor hovering over you, then just fund it yourself or through friends and family, and grow it organically. It’s more possible to bootstrap today than a few years ago, as the cost of entry continues to go down.
TechCrunch LA
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Waymo will begin testing its autonomous Jaguar I-Paces without a human safety operator in Los Angeles in the next couple of weeks. This is the company’s next step on its path to commercializing robotaxi services in its second California city.
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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.
Startup San Diego
MARCH 8, 2023
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StartUp Beat
MARCH 1, 2023
Decorilla leverages VR & AR tech to let interior design customers walk around a room design that doesn't exist yet. The post How this company is using VR & AR to enhance the age-old interior design business appeared first on StartUp Beat. Startup Stories
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors.
Berkonomics
MARCH 2, 2023
One thing a senior manager can count on is that someday, something will go right, very right. Well, after all the disappointments, pressure and outright failures, this is NEWS. So, we tend to go overboard a bit.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
When do you sell your company? Obviously, we all want to sell at the top. And there is the problem. How do you know when you are at or near that right point to sell for maximum value?
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Here’s the IRS take on the issue: It is no secret that the IRS carefully looks below the surface for personal use of company assets (including cash) in its corporate income tax audits.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
I admit that my dad taught me this when I was just a fifteen–year old kid starting a business and negotiating with suppliers for the first time. But I learned it again and again in my various business lives. Here’s a striking example.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Celebrating that strategic partnership Many of us make it a priority to find and partner with companies that can add to our offering or extend our reach. And we rightly celebrate each such pairing, often with a mutual press release. And sometimes that’s all we end up doing.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 6, 2023
Aspiring entrepreneurs who rely only on traditional learning vehicles (teachers, classrooms, and risk-free practice) are doomed to failure in anticipating change today.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Every business professional I know, or have met in my consulting role, has given serious thought to the alternative of switching to the entrepreneur lifestyle , pursuing a long-standing dream, and controlling their own destiny.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 15, 2023
As an advisor to entrepreneurs and active angel investor, I often get questions about the realism of the Shark Tank TV series, compared to professional investor negotiations. The simple answer is that with all the staging of TV lights and billionaire investors, it’s nothing like Silicon Valley.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 10, 2023
As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 11, 2023
Savvy entrepreneurs start testing their ideas on potential customers even before the concept is fully cooked.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
Every new business quickly realizes that revenue coming in every period on a committed basis is the Holy Grail to survival and growth. Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 13, 2023
As I have learned through my career in business, as well as years of business consulting, team trust in each other, as well as management, is critical to the long-term success of every venture.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
Many experts are certain that successful entrepreneurs are the ones with the most inspiration (passion and dream), while others will assert that it’s about more perspiration (working harder). In my experience, both are always required in heavy doses.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
As a business consultant, I see many different employee cultures, from exciting and motivational, to dysfunctional and non-productive. Company leaders, as well as front-line team members usually realize when they have a problem, but most have no idea what is possible or how to change the culture.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 3, 2023
Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Serious investors, on the other hand, look for a professional business plan or summary first, and hardly ever look at the product plan.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 4, 2023
We are now solidly in the era of big data , where computers are capturing and processing the details of everything we do with all our interconnected devices in real time.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 1, 2023
Every business communication you initiate, both internal and external, involves some risk to your credibility, has legal implications, and may impact your relationship with peers.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
As an experienced business professional and mentor, I find that most successful peers will admit that they love what they do. From all the rest, I often hear the complaints about lack of motivation, boring job assignments, and bad management.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 4, 2023
The military has long recognized that machine guns are force multipliers for rifles, but businesses have been slow to capitalize on this concept. Sometimes all the planning in the world isn’t enough for business survival, when things change as fast as they do today.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 25, 2023
The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
The era of stable lifetime jobs for business professionals within a single company are gone. Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 19, 2023
It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Every business I know has teams, some working collaboratively to great advantage, while others sadly operating as collections of individuals who work alone, often in competition with each other.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
With business teams now getting back together in the workplace after primarily working remotely during the pandemic , it’s an ideal time to implement change and make sure your team is feeling a renewed sense of satisfaction, high engagement, and maximum productivity.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Did you ever wonder why some entrepreneurs always seem to have all the luck and success, while others never seem to catch a break?
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 12, 2023
Too many entrepreneurs tell me they are looking for an investor, and can’t differentiate between venture capital (VC) investors versus accredited angel investors. They argue that the color of the money is the same from either source.
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