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Your board should protect you!

Berkonomics

They can elect directors for their class of stock, approve mergers and acquisitions; approve increases or changes to the capital structure of the company and other more minor actions. Sometimes, there will be a conflict of interest between the people representing the various shareholder classes on a board.

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When should you go for equity financing?

Berkonomics

Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. There are other classes of equity investors for small or early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Then there is venture capital.

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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

Both Sides of the Table

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. I’m investing in businesses that reinvent education. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. Ryan wants to reinvent education. I’m investing heavily in Internet video.

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Board members must protect the coporation before themselves.

Berkonomics

They can elect directors for their class of stock, approve mergers and acquisitions; approve increases or changes to the capital structure of the company and other more minor actions. Sometimes, there will be a conflict of interest between the people representing the various shareholder classes on a board.

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Why We Can’t Let Luddites Ruin Global Trade

Both Sides of the Table

The Luddites would ruin machinery by “throwing a spanner in the works” (or a monkey wrench to the American reader). And of course since machinery costs money and lowers the number of people required to produce a product it pitted labor vs. capital. It’s actually more complicated than that. Trade has winners and losers.

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

Both Sides of the Table

You imagined him as the kid in your class at school at the front of the room raising his hand at every question and saying, “Oooh, me. how can we create an angle that will interest readers? You give them an education in whatever topic it was that they asked about. It was a journalist who covered Venture Capital.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership.

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