Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2012

Companies that are successful with their first product must begin thinking about the costs of additional products or of that product’s replacement well before any evidence of a peak in sales is noticed. There are rules of thumb for various industries in creating a reserve for research and development.

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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. Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Net result and reward.

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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. —The FDA last summer approved two new cholesterol fighting drugs known as PCSK9 inhibitors, but so far the market has rejected them, resulting in paltry sales. Talk about sacrifice. Be our guest and try it.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Net result and reward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. They benchmark their ideas against competition, use metrics to track acceptance, sales growth, and return on investment. Net result and reward. Business risks are not just development risks. Value creation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Early customers and contracts in progress add value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Early customers and contracts in progress add value.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Early customers and contracts in progress add value.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

There was a disconnect between the product and the sales process. Angels have lost lots of net worth because of the stock market meltdown, so we've kept it small, and plan to keep it small--at most three to five people at the most by the end of the year. Our growth will come from profits, not raising money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2020

billion net worth. The Apple computer was really “invented” by Steve Wozniak , but it was the marketing and sales efforts of Steve Jobs that really led to Apple’s success. Dyson, for example, invented over 5,000 prototypes before he perfected his bagless home vacuum technology with a constant suction.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

They can call us, we turn it into a IP call, and a 10 digit phone number, we then figure out where that user is on the planet, and deliver it over IP, making it a complete on-net call. The reverse also happens--if one of our users wants to call Skype users, they can do that purely on the net, without using the PSTN.

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