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Need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. But few businesses grow into the sweet spot of $20 million to $30 million in worth to an ultimate buyer without the injection of outside capital.

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Does your business need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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Announcing The socalTECH 50, 2015 Edition

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These nominees came from (many) reader suggestions; suggestions by a wide range of industry insiders who served as an informal nominating committee; and our own and other editorial coverage. Congratulations to our third class of the socalTECH 50! Where did these names come from? Harrison Tang , Spokeo. Alice Taylor , MakieLab.

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Raising money for your business: What are the options?

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This post will be perhaps a bit longer than usual, but certainly of great interest for those with interest in or have need for more capital… This stage is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. For you who fit that description, nice work.

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Be careful about equity and options!

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Here is the warning: The execution of equity allocations and of a good incentive program using equity is often mismanaged, damaging the corporate capitalization structure and even affecting the outcome of subsequent investment into the company. … How about multiple classes of stock?

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Careful about equity and options in early stage businesses

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Here is the warning: The execution of partnership equity allocations and of a good incentive program using equity is often mismanaged, damaging the corporate capitalization structure and even affecting the outcome of subsequent investment into the company. I just couldn’t reduce it to far fewer words… Dave.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

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The difference in what we're doing, is we're an active sensor network. 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 are really focused on the active RFID tagging area. Our RFID tags have their own battery power.

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