Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Of course, the response depends upon lots of variables, including whether the company is in a fund-raising mode (in which case the CEO may be spending up to 80% of his or her time on this alone). How much time do you devote to each type of activity? Analyzing your commitments of time to business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

Of course, it helps to pick a business model that minimizes these costs, such as e-commerce to minimize initial staff and facilities, or professional services, where you are the initial product. Assess your resource potential before you start. Build your plan around resources you know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2021

Take a positive and active role in the execution. Of course, talking and giving orders is no substitute for doing. True leaders model accountability by taking an active role and adding value, rather than just driving others and assigning blame.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. Practice active listening, and accept reality quickly. Venture where no business has gone before.

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Ideas Startup Entrepreneur Social Media 105

Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

That is, of course, until the small, ambitious startup is acquired by a larger, more traditional company in its sector, or the small startup goes public with angry shareholders and regulators asking difficult questions. .” ” For what it's worth, Zenefits is still operating and seems to have moved on from its earlier reputation.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Entrepreneurs have become more resourceful since the 80s, and your options are more diverse as well. Thanks to globalization, a professional freelancer can sign up on platforms like Kajabi , a startup that allows you to sell e-courses and host online workshops. Here are 4 location types and their benefits for you to consider.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you’re funding the same stuff as everybody else and if you started your activities when the clues were obvious you’re much less likely to drive enormous returns. We look at stage, geography and of course sector. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives. Far from it.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 11, 2021

All approved COVID-19 vaccines to date require a two-course treatment, including one initial inoculation followed by a booster to be administered sometime later. But the app is also providing users with information about COVID-19 care, and, most usefully, prevention and ways to slow the spread.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2023

She is an award-winning author who has taught courses on sociology and victimology for many years. Remove clutter and develop a system for tracking projects and managing resources. I found a good summary of the bad habits that can cause failures to finish in a recent book, “ How to Finish Everything You Start ,” by Jan Yager.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2023

Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem-solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources. A friend or family investor thus might get 20% of the equity, even with no business activity contribution. Experience and connections in your business area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

The good news is that a recent Kauffman Early-Stage Entrepreneurship (KESE) Index shows the highest level of new business activity recorded in the last two decades, and the cost of entry at an all-time low. The smart ones have a plan for how they intend to spend these resources, and measure themselves against the plan.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2016

Tina Hay: It all started with a meeting at the White House, and it grew into creating a FAFSA napkin for the First Lady's office, which eventually became Michelle Obama's Napkin Finance course. The course initially helps teach students about paying for college, understanding loans, and how to complete their studies. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

(this requires a strong knowledge of market data, employee performance, company performance relative to market and available resources?—?cash Should we cut costs, do layoffs, close divisions and focus scare resources on fewer projects? cash & unallocated stock options) Should we raise capital, from whom, how much and at what price?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, including any local university. Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Business plan assistance. Building a team.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

As you can see, the game can get very active and silly very quickly. Uong noted, “I started Doozy because I firmly believe that if you make physical activity fun, kids and adults will want to be active. I seem to have the attention span of a child sometimes and I empathized with their lack of motivation to exercise.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

The current term for all these activities and results online is “ content marketing.” In my experience, your biggest challenge will be to rationalize the disparate input from your sales and marketing organizations, who each want more resources and more credit for ROI. Rarely is there alignment between sales and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2020

Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources. A friend or family investor thus might get 20% of the equity, even with no business activity contribution. Experience and connections in your business area.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

Of course the VC is looking to have specificity in how you plan to spend the money you’re going to raise and plans that show a pie chart that says, “25% on marketing, 30% on technology and R&D, 20% on infrastructure, 25% on G&A” do not get funded. It’s the amount of money you’re raising. A VC is looking for reasonableness.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer. Of course not every VC has the fund size or the fee size to build services at this scale yet many provide extremely well-regarded programs that are valuable.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Alumni activities. Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. And of course we also think about the fact that as many entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial concepts gear towards a younger generation we also needed investment professionals who are in that demographic. Portfolio company support & analysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied. Practice active listening, and accept reality quickly. Venture where no business has gone before.

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Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Coach 117

socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Analytic process automation platforms are organizing what were once patchwork point solutions that cost customers time and resources, bringing streamlined processes and the human back to the center of problem solving. ADAPT, the newest pillar of our corporate social responsibility initiative, Alteryx for Good (AFG).

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Southern California Technical Review Platform Organization 140

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

< These days, it’s easy to find comprehensive videos and online courses on the Internet to get you up to speed, but I find many entrepreneurs who are too independent and proud to look or ask for help. There are complex processes, like filing a patent, and financial tools that may be new to you, including Excel and Quickbooks.

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Product Startup Tips Entrepreneur 123

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

And even when calculated correctly often CAC’s are assumed to be constant but of course they’re not. But often this doesn’t tell the whole story because often companies are also spending money on PR and other marketing activities in order to support the sales process.

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Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

Moving a VC from an A to a B doesn’t mean they aren’t still your top pick, it just means your chances are less likely and your extremely limited resources should be allocated elsewhere. Of course there’s no exact number of VCs you should meet?—? Fund-raising is a year-round activity and never ends. Why 8–10 and not just 3–4?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. If your closet is full of clothes and your credit card is full of debt – of course you’re going to trade clothes with other people rather than only buying new stuff. What are the Types of Collaborative Consumption Companies?

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Marketing Course Pricing Networking 361

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, or even any local university. Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Business plan assistance. Building a team.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Mentor Research 92

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As shown below, it was recently ranked as the fifth most active metropolitan area in the US, in terms of venture deals and dollars, on a per capita basis. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all.

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Press Startup Writing Training 319

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

The good news is that the latest Kauffman Early-Stage Entrepreneurship (KESE) Index shows the highest level of new business activity recorded in the last two decades, and the cost of entry at an all-time low. The smart ones have a plan for how they intend to spend these resources, and measure themselves against the plan.

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Startup News Framework Outsource 94

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We teach through video tutorials, with courses around specific sites, like how to make content for FunnyorDie, taught by one of the staff writers from FunnyOrDie. I worked on packaging independent projects, and helped send Paranormal Activity to Paramount. We'll also be offering the top ten tips from those teachers.

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Web Content Startup Education 187

SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

in terms of the activity, with not only jobs aplenty, but offers and counter-offers hitting good talent. Do you have anyone you could recommend to me, or any resources? Of course, a lot of people say the same thing. One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999? I wouldn’t say it’s 1999 or even 2007, but it certainly has turned around.

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Develop Development TechEmpower Southern California 175

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2013

In order for an organization to buy product it takes an individual who has a budget and is willing spent it on you or they have access to a group budget and are willing to fight for the resources to implement your solution. In order for somebody with IA to be your champion he has to be actively helping you through the sales process.

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Sales Help Organization Product 322

Berkonomics

JULY 30, 2015

The good thing was that I had a certain ability to see ahead of the obvious horizon so I could often find resources we didn’t have, and grasp those issues we knew we didn’t know about. Of course it wasn’t just one event that was the cause, as you might guess. But how do you see these things before they hit you?

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.Net Startup Entrepreneur Mentor 120

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Weekend activities begin with rapid-fire pitches, prototype building, mentor feedback from experts in the field, and it concludes with a Shark Tank-style judging session. Prizes awarded will be designed to add value to the winning startup teams, and of course come with bragging rights! Participants arrive the evening of Friday, Nov.

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