Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Strategic buyers look for managerial talent, intellectual property, geographic expansion, an extension into adjacent markets – and more – that will be achieved with the acquisition of your company. There is a third class of buyer I discovered first hand when selling my company – the emotional buyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Anything requiring lead generation and/or customer acquisition I call Matt Coffin.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

And then there are options: [Email readers, continue here…] Stock options or phantom stock are the tools of early stage businesses used to attract great talent when there is not enough cash to pay market rates. Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Your team operates out of a barn on your idyllic, coastal property, yet you have created a world-class product. To what extent does all the “social” noise and excitement help or hurt your ability to tell SocialStay’s story to potential investors and partners? We subscribe to the same philosophy.”. constantly looking and interviewing.”.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

They protect the company by overseeing the expenditure of company money for expansion, acquisitions, purchases of large assets, hiring of senior management and more. This could happen when a board votes to take in new money at terms that would be unfavorable to the class of investor represented by the board member.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Unlike Walmart, you don't have to walk through a reader or interrogator, because we have an active tag with a five year asset life, saying here I am. We've got a nice API with ties to the enterprise class applications. Jason Howe: RFID is used a lot in pharmacies. The difference in what we're doing, is we're an active sensor network.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

it is often helpful to look into your past. Excel at classes that interested you and perform poorly in those which did not. As noted in Your Personal Pitch , people enjoy helping appreciative people who are in need. Is it because they read a passage in a self-help book that told them to ‘wish away’ failure? –

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Strategic buyers look for managerial talent, intellectual property, geographic expansion, an extension into adjacent markets and more that will be achieved with the acquisition of your company. Email readers, continue here.] There is a third class of buyer I discovered first hand when selling my company – the emotional buyer.

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Berkonomics

MAY 12, 2010

Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here. Email readers continue here.] It there is only one class of stock, the same as the founders, and the appraisal of the single class of shares yields, say $2.00 An option plan should carve out an addition of about 15% of the “fully diluted” shares.

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