Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

Others worry that investors will latch onto individual line items within financial data and engage in inquisitions regarding telephone bills, marketing costs and other tactical line items in detailed financial statements. First, let’s cover the absolute minimum legal requirement a company has to provide to its investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Santa Monica-based Super League Gaming , which operates its own e-sports competition site and community, is headed for the public markets, hoping to raise as much as $31.36M for the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Super League Gaming is led by President and CEO Ann Hand. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

The net result of my posts plus the comments forms a tighter view of my evolving belief system. But I think it’s fair to point out when I believe that the profit motive is a net negative for startups or for our industry. Think it’s purely evil to fend off competition? The answer is obviously neither or both.

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Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2015

You, the lonely fisherman, have to weave a net to catch your fish. Should your net be large and bulky, requiring more effort and expense to weave? Or should it be small and delicate, to catch those fish that would otherwise fall through the net? The size of your market may well define the ultimate size of your dream.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2017

The company reported a net loss of $1.2 The company says it has been seeing competition in the data storage industry which has "create pressure" on maintaining market share, saying that "market headwinds" have been challenging the company. According to Qualstar, it had a loss of $0.4 million on revenues of $2.2M

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Exactly what is that customer experience that every modern marketer is talking about, and how do you measure it? One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). Satisfied but unenthusiastic customers who can be easily wooed by the competition. Detractors. Have you checked your customers’ experience lately?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2021

Here is my own net of those seven habits: Founder is ready, willing, and able to learn. Choose a large market in a growth industry. A large market means at least $500 million in potential sales if the company is asset-light, and $1 billion if it requires plenty of property, plants and equipment.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). If we continue our success we will have strong competition. 30% is the market opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2015

Then we launched our service in NYC and in just one year captured 2% of all new storage customers in our target demo in just one year with almost no marketing budget. We offered a service that has a net promoter score of 87 placing us higher than such great brands as USAA, Costco, Apple and Amazon.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. Nobody in our competitive space can do all of those things, because they simply don't control their own destiny, because they don't own their own technology.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

Research the Net for guidance in this arena, which is changing as laws enabling this are evolving. Competition is high for these resources, and often there is a substantial ownership stake, if not control, for the investors, depending upon the value of the business and success in using the first moneys invested.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

For our interview today, we caught up with Al Eisaian , CEO of Pasadena-based IconApps (www.iconapps.com), which is developing mobile applications for the iPhone market. The way we have build this app, is we can change the skins to go after different markets, like the college crowd, or high school crowd, or what have you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

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. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2015

Exactly what is that customer experience that every modern marketer is talking about, and how do you measure it? One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). Satisfied but unenthusiastic customers who can be easily wooed by the competition. Detractors. Have you checked your customers’ experience lately?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, or an inadequate revenue model. The value proposition must clearly define the target customer, the customer’s problem and pain, your unique solution, and the net benefit of this solution from the customer's perspective. Target market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. The value proposition must clearly define the target customer, the customer’s problem and pain, your unique solution, and the net benefit of this solution from the customer's perspective. Target market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. The value proposition must clearly define the target customer, the customer’s problem and pain, your unique solution, and the net benefit of this solution from the customer's perspective. Target market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The challenge is that too many are confused on what that means for them, and what it takes to make their business competitively agile. These authors, and I agree, define agility in business as the ability to detect and assess changes in the competitive world in real time, and then take decisive and effective action.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

Others worry that we will latch onto individual line items within financial data and engage in inquisitions regarding telephone bills, marketing costs and other tactical line items in detailed financial statements. They worry that we will not keep the information confidential and that financial data will find its way into competitors’ hands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

To refresh your memory, angel investors are typically high net worth individuals, accredited by the SEC and willing to invest their own money in a high-potential startup for a share of the ownership. They don’t get excited by early stage research, development, or marketing hype. Crowdfunding is not the best platform here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Most existing metrics and analytics for measuring customer satisfaction and loyalty, including the popular Net Promoter Score (NPS), don’t distinguish between recommend messages to others (word-of-mouth), detract messages or no message at all. Marketing-driven customer acquisition. Nobody said it would be easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Most existing metrics and analytics for measuring customer satisfaction and loyalty, including the popular Net Promoter Score (NPS), don’t distinguish between recommend messages to others (word-of-mouth), detract messages, or no message. Marketing-driven customer acquisition. Nobody said it would be easy. Get busy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2014

Exactly what is that customer experience that every modern marketer is talking about, and how do you measure it? One new metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). Satisfied but unenthusiastic customers who can be easily wooed by the competition. Detractors. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 31, 2015

Telecom has announced that it has filed suit against the United States government in response to the recent ruling by the Federal Communications Commission on Net Neutrality. Without the FCC’s ruling, companies such as this one could face restrictions and unfair competition from internet providers. The suit was filed in the U.S.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2013

Here is my own net of those seven habits: Founder is ready, willing, and able to learn. Choose a large market in a growth industry. A large market means at least $500 million in potential sales if the company is asset-light, and $1 billion if it requires plenty of property, plants and equipment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. I’ve netted out his and others to create the following basic strategy for entrepreneurial growth: Apply your core competency to related markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2012

Here is my own net of those seven habits: Founder is ready, willing, and able to learn. Choose a large market in a growth industry. A large market means at least $500 million in potential sales if the company is asset-light, and $1 billion if it requires plenty of property, plants and equipment.

Startup 99

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. I’ve netted out his and others to create the following basic strategy for entrepreneurial growth: Apply your core competency to related markets.

Startup 98

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It’s no secret that the rate of failure of new business startups may be a high as ninety percent , so we all need all the help we can get, validating the opportunity, clearly positioning against competitors, projecting financials, and planning all the necessary marketing and operating activities. Make it light, but factual.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This statement leaves no confusion in the minds of investors, or customers, of what the company does and how it is different (and better) than the competition. Investors realize that the resources and risk required to hit both markets concurrently are great, so they will likely look for focus, or a staged approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2012

Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition. Otherwise, sales, marketing, and operational costs will kill you. That should be true even if your customer is really a distributor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2013

Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition. Otherwise, sales, marketing, and operational costs will kill you. That should be true even if your customer is really a distributor.

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Startup Pricing Statistics .Net 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Both have worked.Google reached $1 billion in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400 billion. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50 percent and a net margin in the 20 percent range.

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