Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2020

Here’s the importance of that event and how it affects every productive move you make after that moment. Every dollar of gross profit falls to the bottom line, increasing net profit faster with each transaction. Just to be fair, a 5% cut in costs would also double net profit. Let’s say that your company is exactly at breakeven.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

As crazy as this scenario sounds, it is very similar to the “scoring process” companies engage in when they track Net Promoter Scores. Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Turning Net Promoters Into Net Profits.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2011

in net proceeds from the firm's IPO last week. The firm, which debuted on the NYSE as DMD, said it will use the new funding for investments in content, international expansion, working capital, product development, sales and marketing activities, general and administrative matters and capital expenditures.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

As crazy as this scenario sounds, it is very similar to the “scoring process” companies engage in when they track Net Promoter Scores. Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Turning Net Promoters Into Net Profits.

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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. They use products because the products solve a need they have. Here’s my take on the topic: 1.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I am on the board of a services company that specializes in the middle of the market, knowing that very large competitors throw lots of resources at the largest accounts – resources that our company just does not have. One day a sixteen wheeler full of returned product drove into his loading area.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 11, 2021

Here’s the question: Sean Ellis, the marketing guru behind DropBox and other successes, advises clients that “The most important question on a survey is , ‘How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?’” He goes on to quantify the response. Most of us know of the “net promoter score” which is the ultimate survey.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2021

According to Cohu, it sold its Printed Circuit Board Test Group (PTG) business to Mycronic AB, a Swedish company involved in development, manufacture and marketing of production equipment, including atg Luther & Maelzer GmbH and other affiliated entities and assets. The deal is worth $125M in cash.

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Berkonomics

JULY 11, 2013

Every dollar of gross profit falls to the bottom line, increasing net profit faster with each transaction. A ten percent increase in revenues for a company with 50% gross margin and 5% net profit before the increase would double net profit for the period with that ten percent increase in revenue.

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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

MARCH 31, 2023

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. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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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. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2020

Substitute the word “money” for “water” and we have an explanation for most all the reasons why successful products move from concept through early adopters through mass market. Fighting this fact will just extend the misery of accepting a result with as product or marketing failure in the marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2022

In reality, a simple Excel spreadsheet model customized around your assumptions can save you hours and avoid a wasted expense in validating alternative vendor and marketing decisions. What if you need to change your market size and volume projections? Yet they can be done by a simple financial model in a few milliseconds.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2017

Pasadena-based Episona has raised $4M in seed funding, to go towards expansion of its male fertility testing product, Seed, the company said last week. According to Episona, the funding came from the Pasadena Angeles, as well as other high-net worth individuals from Pasadena and San Francisco. The company is led by Dr. Alan Horsager.

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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. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2017

Irvine-based storage products maker Western Digital announced its second fiscal quarter results on Wednesday afternoon, saying that it saw revenues of $4.9 The company said it had operating income of $545M and net income of $235M, including charges associated with recent acquisitions. billion for the quarter, up from $3.3

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socalTECH

JULY 3, 2018

To launch the grant effort, Funraise said it is offering up grants for such hing as a year of free office space at WeWork in Southern California, $25,000 in Apple products, a $25,000 cash grant, brand marketing consultation from Ideation, a high net worth pitch to 10 philanthropists, and more.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Camarillo-based Power-One , which develops both photovoltaic inverters and other poser conversion products, saw its fourth quarter results surge on demand for its photovoltaic inverter products. According to the firm Thursday, it saw net sales of $366M for its quarter ended January 2, up 157 percent from the fourth quarter of 2009.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call services firm headed by Jason Spievak, has signed on a new customer today, Rex Direct Net. According to Rex Direct Net, it will offer pay-per-call services powered by RingRevenue's products. Tags: ringrevenue callwave rexdirect affiliate marketing call telephone.

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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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Jason Nazar

MAY 1, 2016

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. Paid Product Metrics. Net Promoter Score. Net Promoter Score.

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Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. Paid Product Metrics. Net Promoter Score. Net Promoter Score.

Marketing 40

Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2015

with a net worth of $1.2 Alorica said the buy expands its product offerings and market reach, and gives it approximately 48,000 employees worldwide. Alorica had originally announced the deal back in January. Alorica said the acquisition makes it the largest business process outsourcing provider in the U.S., READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 24, 2019

The supplier contract is notable for Ouster, a startup trying to carve out market share from the giant Velodyne and stand out from a global pack lidar companies that now numbers close to 70. The company has announced four lidar sensors to date, with resolutions from 16 to 128 channels, and two product lines, the OS-1 and OS-2.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2015

with a net worth of $1.2 Alorica said the buy expands its product offerings and market reach, and gives it approximately 48,000 employees worldwide. Alorica had originally announced the deal back in January. Alorica said the acquisition makes it the largest business process outsourcing provider in the U.S., READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2016

NantHealth said it intends to list on the NASDAQ Global Market as NH. NantHealth reported a net loss of $71.6M NantHealth is a provider of personalized medicine and diagnostics products, which uses data analysis to better tune treatments for individual patients. in a public offering. in total revenues for 2015. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JULY 18, 2013

Substitute the word “money” for “water” and we have an explanation for most all of the reasons why successful products move from concept through early adopters through mass market. Fighting this fact will just extend the misery of accepting a product or marketing failure in the marketplace.

.Net 179

.Net Email Examples Pricing 179

Berkonomics

JULY 25, 2013

We all know that the world of marketing has turned upside down these past years through the power of the Internet. Marketing texts and college professors say that it takes at least seven impressions – exposures – before a person recognizes and acts upon the message. That’s an expensive proposition for small companies.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2012

Calabasas-based KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals , a developer of biopharmaceuticals for the aesthetic medicine market, has filed for an IPO. According to the firm's S-1 filing, Kythera is looking to raise up to $86.25M on the NASDAQ Global Market as KYTH. Leerink Swann, and Lazard Capital Markets. Morgan, Goldman, Sachs & Co.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

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

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

JANUARY 6, 2020

In reality, a simple Excel spreadsheet model customized around your assumptions can save you hours and avoid a wasted expense in validating alternative vendor and marketing decisions. What if you need to change your market size and volume projections? Yet they can be done by a simple financial model in a few milliseconds.

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