Berkonomics

JANUARY 13, 2022

You no longer need to worry over daily cash or threats to your net worth. Email readers, continue here…] But what about the pause to celebrate? What most entrepreneurs fail dramatically at is to celebrate the moment. Then do as all good entrepreneurs do. First there comes a sense of relief and maybe guilt.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Email readers, continue here…] First there comes a sense of relief, knowing that you no longer need to worry over daily cash or threats to your net worth. But what most entrepreneurs fail dramatically at is to celebrate the moment. The do as all good entrepreneurs do. Many fail multiple times. Take a long breath.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

But the real asset became obvious to me at almost exactly five PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. The surprise I could not ignore. Recovery and success.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. Most entrepreneurs (and VCs raising from LPs) think this means progress. Some people find this elitist?—?I It doesn’t.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). And even with the significant cost of credit card debt, many entrepreneurs aggressively use existing cards to finance a startup.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There is an exemption from the requirements that these investors be accredited with net worth or income minimums to qualify legally to invest in your company. Email readers, continue here… ] The Angel Capital Association (ACA) lists over four hundred member groups, located throughout the USA. We’ll call these “inside angels.”

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Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. They have over 1,700,000 registered members with over 300,000 investors and 1,400,000 entrepreneurs. AngelList.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But the real asset became obvious at almost exactly 5 PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. And a month later the bubble burst.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. Selecting the right sales channels is one of the first strategic decisions that every startup faces. Lead management performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. Selecting the right sales channels is one of the first strategic decisions that every startup faces. Lead management performance.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

On the other side, entrepreneurs and CEO’s usually have a natural fear of giving too much information to us investors after the initial investment is received. Email readers, continue here…] Prepare for your annual meetings well. Every investor wants regular information from companies taking their money. But don’t worry.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout. 0:28:00) & (0:31:27).

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. You've got to have great sales enablement. What is CareerArc? If you're not quick you're not there.

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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? Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. They have over 1,000,000 registered members with over 200,000 investors and 650,000 entrepreneurs. AngelList.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

I grew to appreciate this approach much more when I interviewed a popular serial entrepreneur, Rich Christiansen a while back, who has done almost 30 businesses wholly by bootstrapping. Take little to no net profit. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. Reinvest gross profit.

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Organization Startup Summary Entrepreneur 111

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

I am a raving fan of AppSumo because the creator of the brand, Noah Kagan , leads his company focusing on community first and sales second. And he showed us examples how implementing his team’s innovations directly sky rocketed company sales. His email list is everything. But you need to pay the bills!’ I resisted.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder is able to self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). And even with the significant cost of credit card debt, many entrepreneurs aggressively use existing cards to finance a startup.

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Venture Capital Invest Class Entrepreneur 174

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. angels entrepreneur funding groups startup' It powers over 1,000 investment Angel and VC groups in 80+ countries.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Two hundred and fifty thousand would have netted my firm more than one billion dollars. The Billion Dollar Email. A few months later, on December 30th, 2010, my friend appended the following text to a lengthy, non-Uber oriented email: “not sure if you guys are aware of uber ( ubercab.com ). Nope, that’s not a typo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. They have over 785,000 registered members with 140,000 investors and 650,000 entrepreneurs. AngelList.

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Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 67

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Richard White, author of The Entrepreneur’s Manual , surveyed a number of venture capitalists, asking them to identify the characteristics of successful, serial entrepreneurs. In fact, several of the venture capitalists pointed out that successful entrepreneurs often have to be encouraged to spend more aggressively.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

In his premier film appearance in the blaxploitation send-up “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka,” Chris Rock inadvertently addresses a key pricing challenge faced by most entrepreneurs. Even sales reps will invoke a cost plus logic when negotiating with me on behalf of their customers. Experienced entrepreneurs know this is simply not true.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

There are a lot of users, with lots of different email and instant messaging accounts, who are finding that there are too many ways to communicate with their friends and associates. People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

A few years ago I interviewed a serial entrepreneur, Rich Christiansen , who has done almost 30 businesses wholly by bootstrapping. Take little to no net profit. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run! Reinvest gross profit.

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Equity Startup Summary Tips 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. Investors expect you to understand their motivation, respect their time, and show your integrity in all actions.

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Angel Keiretsu Organization Invest 108

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world. As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you.

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Angel Keiretsu Organization Template 102

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Last year I interviewed a serial entrepreneur, Rich Christiansen , who has done almost 30 businesses wholly by bootstrapping. Take little to no net profit. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. Isn’t this contrary to why you signed up to be an entrepreneur in the first place?

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Tips Startup Summary Entrepreneur 96

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

The area which probably is really attuned to your readers, is we also serve many mid-market, growth oriented companies that are looking to grow and acquire customers, with paid and earned digital channels, paid search, paid media, social, email, and organic SEO, as well as digital PR and content. Now, it's long, and complex.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 1, 2016

For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics. In many cases, before the sale is complete, you’ll also measure your cost per lead (CPL) as in-between step in order to collect data about the user to remarket to them. Net Promoter Score. Paid Product Metrics. Cost Per Vistor.

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Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics. In many cases, before the sale is complete, you’ll also measure your cost per lead (CPL) as in-between step in order to collect data about the user to remarket to them. Net Promoter Score. Paid Product Metrics. Cost Per Vistor.

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Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you. This is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital. Tags: entrepreneur startup angel investors flock of angels. Marty Zwilling.

Angel 48

Angel Keiretsu Startup Template 48

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

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Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

The key here is to provide visibility to everyone along the process--not just at the start, when you put it on the wall, or email the project plan to everyone. There was a disconnect between the product and the sales process. Tags: project management startup dipanshu entrepreneur interview microsoft kadonk nokia sharma.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. More Mansion Videos.

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