Berkonomics

JULY 25, 2013

That’s an expensive proposition for small companies. Create groups in Facebook, followers on Twitter, a comments section on your blog or website, and more. Identify a number of influencers, and then offer to let them use your product or service at low or no cost if they will join your informal advisory group on the ‘net.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 15, 2019

You can’t always do all three with your current resources, which is why many carriers partner with telecom infrastructure companies. Telecom infrastructure companies can fill the gaps in your own capabilities so you can achieve key growth initiatives. Wireless Backhaul. Wireless Infrastructure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

People cite sources like this Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.” Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Pitch your company, not your product. Executive summary glossy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

So founders took fewer risks and at the societal level with fewer companies taking fewer expansion risks job creation is weaker. After all, if people feel more of a safety net for trying and not succeeding more people are bound to try in the first place and more innovation is almost inevitable. That’s why I have links open new tabs.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

s data privacy regulator fined Facebook $645,000 for violations that allowed political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica and other outside companies to extract 87 million Facebook profiles worldwide without adequate user knowledge or consent. The company’s net income in the second quarter alone was more than $5 billion.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As more companies become highly dependent on technology, the need for dependable and secure network infrastructure resources grows as well. The best managed network services providers will have a range of solutions to fit different business sizes and requirements, along with the ability to tailor each offering to individual companies.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Arena Pharmaceuticals continued its comeback Thursday, netting a whopping $800 million up front in a deal that hands United Therapeutics another experimental drug for the rare blood disorder pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). [ Updated, 11/15/18, 2:06 p.m. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2018

million deal netted the San Diego company eight partner programs and a 70-person R&D team in Cambridge, England, plus about $32 million in cash after deal costs. Ligand (NASDAQ: LGND ) CEO John Higgins, in a prepared statement, said the acquisition added more “shots on goal” to the company’s portfolio.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2017

The “WannaCry” virus, which first hit companies and healthcare services on Friday, has infected some 300,000 computer systems in 150-odd countries. Yet, for all the brouhaha, the attack had netted less than $70,000 as of late Monday— that’s according to sources tracking.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Along with Greycroft Partners we were the first investors in Maker Studios 3 years ago when the company had no revenue and limited infrastructure. I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. Selling at smaller retailers will net you fewer customers and higher margins. ” Don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both. You should, too.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

Pernix Therapeutics is slashing its headcount by more than 20 percent as the specialty pharmaceutical company tries to move toward profitability after a streak of acquisitions. Morristown, NJ-based Pernix (NASDAQ: PTX ) will cut 60 workers , mostly from its neurology sales staff, the company said today. million net loss.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

In case you missed all the kerfuffle this weekend, I posted this blog post originally on TechCrunch. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. Still, as I’ve written in the past, what I love about blogging is the ability to have a public debate where we can all learn. The post is balanced and worth reading.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. He started another company on the side while he was working during the day at a technology company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share).

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Investor in Twitter, Foursquare, DISQUS, and (by Naval’s own admission) “a lot of other companies you have never heard of”. When great companies really hit, all the investors want in and there isn’t enough room. Long-term, we may start investing in some of these companies as they go through. Former Founder Epinions.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. You’re a small fish. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Take little to no net profit. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. Sometimes the tiniest details will throw your startup company into disaster. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run! Reinvest gross profit. Act big, behave small. Practice creative marketing.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

The decision was made over a year ago now, to break those two pieces into two separate companies. We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry. We are now the biggest and completely integrated, vertical registrar and aftermarket domain company in the domain space.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Then came blogs. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

In business, one important measure is the value of the company. That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

Starting a tech company requires youthful vigor, endurance, freedom from obligations like mortgages, imagination, and an intimate understanding of what’s trendy and hip. The article summarized several findings that I personally found surprising: Technology company founders born in the U.S.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

In order to qualify, you have to have high net worth, a strong credit score and significant skin in the game. Understand how to value you company (more to come in a future blog!) Come to the table with a reasonable equity offer based on your company’s true value. Traditional Bank Loans.

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

LabCorp will also assume net debt of San Diego-based Sequenom (NASDAQ: SQNM ), bringing the value of the cash deal to approximately $371 million. In 2011, state incentives lured the company to Research Triangle Park, where it built a $19 million lab to bolster its molecular diagnostics business. LabCorp reported $8.5

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. And as a result we have bred a culture of companies that have been quite innovative on making money. company called Applied Semantics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

No company exists in a vacuum. Make your solution and company symbiotic but better than competitors. Use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to help you turn visitors into raving fans. Recognize competitors but do not disparage them. If you don’t have a strategy for winning despite competitors, you are doomed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

People cite sources like this recent Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.” Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Pitch your company, not your product. Executive summary glossy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

Take little to no net profit. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. Sometimes the tiniest details will throw your startup company into disaster. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run! Reinvest gross profit. Act big, behave small. Creative marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? So I don’t read too many of them.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The reality, however, of the coexistence between immigrants and their American peers is proving to be a one-sided pursuit, with qualified immigrants struggling to stay in the country to join the companies that they have co-founded. According to the official press release on Senator Moran’s blog. Take the U.S. and Mark Warner (D-Va.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Take little to no net profit. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. Sometimes the tiniest details will throw your startup company into disaster. If you do, there probably won't ever be a long run! Reinvest gross profit. Act big, behave small. Creative marketing.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

In addition, Bank Robbers love the seemingly unlimited possibilities of each heist, as they can never be sure how much money each job will net them. In addition to the characteristics noted below, you may also want to consult “ Finding an Entrepreneurial Gem in the Slag Heap of Big Dumb Company ” and “ Are You an Entrepreneur ”.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

And once in a while, a defender uses his or her face, inadvertently, to block a ball spiked over the net. Talk about sacrifice. If drug approval were an Olympic sport, rejections would also be high drama.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. Sam Rogoway: One thing we've done, and spent a lot of time on as a company, is cultivating a community of talented filmmakers.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

BuzzVoice makes your favorite news & blogs TALK - So you can listen to the stories you wish you had time to read - while you get things done! AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. In Minutes. Its like a match made in heaven.

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