Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

When you seek professional investors, whether organized angels or venture capitalists, one of the early questions you are asked is “How have you financed the business so far?” Currently that standard requires a minimum of $200,000 in annual income or over one million in net assets, including the value of the investor’s principal residence.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Email readers, continue here…] Accounting and HR operations are combined as quickly as possible, as are customer service call centers, retaining specific product skills on the front line from the acquired company. Facilities may become redundant or oversized after these efforts, allowing for consolidation of facilities as well.

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Berkonomics

JULY 18, 2013

Solar panel installations break even only after over years of use, even with subsidies offered by electric companies or governmental organizations. Email readers, continue here.] And adoption of solar technology for home and business has been relatively slow as a result.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“The only success criteria of my startup career is whether GrubMarket can eventually make $100 billion of annual sales,” he said to me over both email and in a phone conversation. It has made some 15 acquisitions in the last two years, including Boston Organics and EJ Food Distributor this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

While his insights have come from large organizations, I give many of the same recommendations to every startup: Channel engagement performance. Nurturing stage email performance. That makes it easier to collect results indicators, including number of emails sent, open rate, click rate, and email bounce rates.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Prepare for your annual meetings well. Summarizing income statements with a line for revenues, cost of revenue, general and administrative expenses, sales and other direct costs – all leading to net income, would satisfy the legal requirement for statement of income and expense.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

While his insights have come from large organizations, I give many of the same recommendations to every startup: Channel engagement performance. Nurturing stage email performance. That makes it easier to collect results indicators, including number of emails sent, open rate, click rate, and email bounce rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

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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. I often send the introduction email and then a second email to the reference to say, “This reference is really important to me.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Any organization which has common interests and members and attendees has become our customer. The reason for this, is because the entire mission statement as an organization, is to provide networking value to members. For 80 percent of those people, they are reading emails sent to Outlook. Finally, what's next on your radar?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Professional angels, often organized into groups, usually invest from $100,000 to $1 million in a young enterprise.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] Summarizing income statements with a line for revenues, cost of revenue, general and administrative expenses, sales and other direct costs – all leading to net income, would satisfy the legal requirement for statement of income and expense.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world. This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2013

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Shervin Pishevar, another person who I respect wrote the following on Twitter, “ Saying you don’t like @AngelList is like saying you don’t like Email. As Shervin said, it’s just email. I have now put a filter on my email so it is auto-filed in Gmail. It’s a communication tool. My personal use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2012

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

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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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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs. That's the first time organized, institutional, managed capital is coming into a company, right after friends and family. Derek Norton: There were two specific things. It all starts there. and beyond.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

We've had close to 2 million tasks people have put into there in the last four months, and all this without any PR or advertising, completely organic. One of the most popular features of the application is the delegation feature, which with one tap allows them to email a grocery list to their husband to pick up.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked also netted in new customers such as Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, and Equity Partners, NextView Ventures and crowd-funding service AI Verified which will take advantage of its iPad compatibility, bulk uploading, and reporting tools. How CapLinked Changes The Game.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over 73% of large businesses in North America use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary email system. Microsoft donated over $504 million worth of software to 43,650 organizations worldwide in 2010. Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold, and a large number of those go towards corporate use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

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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. You can then begin your application to one or more of these organizations right on the same screen. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. Keiretsu Forum.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

This absurd statement caused me to realize that I had done a poor job of instilling a sense of frugality into our organization. For instance, whenever someone at your venture saves your company money, send a company-wide email acknowledging their accomplishment. These words were actually uttered by an otherwise intelligent human being.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Email readers continue here.]. Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. It is for this group that we explore the implications implicit in raising money for growth. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. 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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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

As noted in Net Profit Score , salespeople have used references as a means of establishing credibility with strangers for hundreds of years. The longer you wait to ask for a reference, the more difficult it will be for your Referencer to recall how you specifically added value to her organization.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

But throughout the transition I had my safety net. He grabbed all the user email addresses I had collected and started talking to potential customers to find out what they wanted to do. What did you guys consciously do to manage this transition and how much of it was organic? “To From day one we focused on customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Using amSTATZ athletes can track workouts and search for trainers and local events and event organizers can use the network for their events publicity and partner with trainers to develop training programs for their registrants. For the client: Before: 60 minutes of training with a trainer = $60. How does it work practically?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2022

Here’s a way to prevent such behavior and create a tool for organization – and transparency at the same time. Financial perspective: financial statement showing key indicators such as revenue, expense, net income or other measures important to success. Email readers, continue here…]. The result of this effort?

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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. Often grouped into formal organizations, these investors are sophisticated, helpful, and connected. Angel investment groups or funds. Angel investment groups or funds.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

However, when one does find its way into my email inbox, I admittedly am more energized to help the person or organization in the future. Even favors that do not net positive results should be acknowledged and verbally appreciated. I do not engage in such favors with the desire or even the expectation of receiving a “Thank You.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. USA Angel Investment Network.

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