Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2016

The book is a memoir about an improbable journey from the working-class Hillbilly roots of Appalachia to the elite corridors of one of the top law schools in the US and the world of venture capital. What I loved most about the book is J.D.’s s raw honesty about his childhood. And he talks about his absentee father.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

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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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

In April the company shifted its attention to virtual classes. These classes won’t so much replace kindergarten as provide a two-hour supplement to it. The company offers two-hour classes for two-to-five students twice per week. So far, about 100 students have enrolled in the program.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

An option plan should carve out an addition of about 15% of the “fully diluted” shares. How about the price per share? If 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 Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here.

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Equity Class Pricing Sales 256

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2022

Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. People need realistic expectations about how much effort and time it takes to get just about any job. Follow-up and persistence are a rare natural phenomenon. Root-Cause Problem Analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

If you haven’t read Adam Lashinsky’s awesome new book about Apple , you should. It takes on many of the lessons MBA programs and Corporate America have been teaching about business for the past 50+ years and questions whether lessons from Apple might be more applicable in thinking about the future. Specifically, 1.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 11, 2024

How about the size of the board? What about multiple investor rounds? What about multiple investor rounds? Sometimes, as in one board where I sit today, there are so many classes of investors, each with one or more seats, that a seven-person board is not enough. I am not for large boards.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] I am chairman of the Technology Division of the ABL Organization, a roundtable organization with multiple CEO roundtables of about twelve members each, meeting monthly. What if?” “How about…” “When should we…” “How could we…” You get the idea. It represents strategic thinking.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

It was an unusual sight at Dodger's Stadium on Tuesday evening, at least for baseball fans, as a different Dodger's team took the field: the first class of the LA Dodgers Accelerator , an effort by the team to help incubate and accelerate startups in the sports and sport-related areas.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. No – I’m not talking about YOU – everybody is doing it. I know we spoke about it this week. Now the AP class.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

But the ground we covered was awesome for anybody wanting to know more about sales. LinkedIn (we talked about some tricks we use in LinkedIn). 15:00 Hire somebody who will punch above their weight class. 15:00 Hire somebody who will punch above their weight class. 36:00 Sales people only care about money.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why I wrote this article about Invoca (formerly RingRevenue) that the most obvious mobile Internet ad unit is, in fact, a phone call. When you listen to Tony Hsieh talk about his Zappos customer reps in “ Delivering Happiness ” you get a sense of the effectiveness of call center relationships. Google knows it.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. First, what is All About Addiction about? An offshoot of running that group for a few years, was this website, All About Addiction.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

I agreed to do the interview because the story was about what other companies can learn rather than about airbnb in particular. If you have information about a situation that has gone terribly wrong don’t cover it up. ’ You’re being talked about for the wrong thing. Make the story be about your market.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

Pasadena-based online dating site eHarmony has settled a class action lawsuit over its lack of support for gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals, the firm reported Tuesday evening. According to eHarmony, it is in an agreement to settle Carlson, et. eHarmony, Inc., which was filed in 2007. eHarmony, Inc., which was filed in 2007.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

synopse I have written a blog post about TFB and object pascal - yes, we added our object pascal framework in round 22! Context and use case determines how you optimize your code. btw: xitca-web (bench code not including dependencies) does not do 2,3,5 and still remains competitive in micro bench can be used as a reference.

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Framework TechEmpower Java Paramount 409

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 -- TechAmerica Presents: Don't Be a Wage and Hour Class Action Victim: Prevention Strategies to Keep Your Company Out of Legal Trouble. Learn about major wage and hour class action risk areas currently plaguing California employers and practical steps for reducing such costly exposure.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

We sat down with TX Zhuo , who is heading up the firm's venture investments, about the fund and his path here after a recent stint at Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors fund in Palo Alto. Over the past few months I've been building my networking, and we've done about a deal a month so far. They're pretty competitive about deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly. In fact, that’s what that 20% discount we agreed in your note was all about. But what about this debt thing? It might be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2015

Most business managers preach that the key to success is holding employees accountable for actions, but I have found that successful entrepreneurs are all about holding themselves accountable. They skip the blame and complain game, and make things happen despite major obstacles. Use blame and complain in lieu of accepting accountability.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

. */. private static E [] getUniverse ( Class elementType ) {. There is a single backing array instance of those Month constants living in memory somewhere ( a private field in the Class object for Month ), but it wouldn't be safe to pass that array directly to every caller of values(). return SharedSecrets. getJavaLangAccess ().

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

So suck that every teacher who scolded us for not paying attention to boring classes or making people with ADD feel less accomplished. I sat down with Kati Morton (who does YouTube videos on mental health) to talk about ADD. Luckily I don’t have hyperactivity but that makes me less able to talk about that.

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Startup Writing Class Orange County 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. People need realistic expectations about how much effort and time it takes to get just about any job. entrepreneur business classes startup college course business professional' Job Hunting Basics.

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Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2023

And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before. And how about the new jobs to be created for “prompt-masters” and others manipulating or analyzing or checking AI query results. Thought so. Last year, Amazon employed 1,541,000 workers. Worse, 3.1%

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Generative AI Class 296

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. And build great business they have.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

There is a lot to say about retaining control. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number of investor classes into one. You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone. Access to entrepreneurs-in-residence, business mentors.

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Entrepreneur Class Startup Resource 110

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 18, 2022

A typical one-way trip from San Francisco to Los Cabos will set you back about $2,300. That’s significantly more than for a first-class seat on a domestic airline but also significantly more affordable than a private jet charter. The average fare across the company’s network is about $1,700. Aero CEO Uma Subramanian.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

This sword hanging over the company is not often used but is a constant reminder that an outside investor is serious about getting out, hopefully in less than five years, at a profit, usually from the sale of the company.

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Venture Capital Sales Invest Class 292

TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2013

million in cash for SeatMe and up to approximately 263,000 shares of its Class A common stock, for a total purchase price of approximately $12.7 ” Yelp has has about one million U.S. The post Yelp Acquires SeatMe For About $12.7 Yelp will pay approximately $2.2 million by July 24th. Million appeared first on TechZulu.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2023

During the discussions with the CEO about hiring North American managers, he made it clear that he wanted us to find a first-class office facility from which to start the search process, and proceeded to name cities that attracted him. These two worked from homes in widely scattered cities.

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Startup Class Course Email 156

Berkonomics

AUGUST 4, 2022

In my early journalism classes, I was taught the five “W’s” of good news stories, and that most should be in the first paragraph at that. What about hiding the “why” from employees or investors? Remember the five “W’s?”. Who, what, when, where and why are the five, with sometimes a “how” thrown in for those followers of the macabre.

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Journal Acquisition Class News 156

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. We’ve worried together about the moral obligation implicit in taking such investments from people so close, even with their promise never to expect a return. Friends and family investors. How many angel groups are there?

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Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Berkonomics

APRIL 15, 2021

For example, most of us expect a salesperson to be truly productive only after about six months of building a territory or client base. For a salesperson, how about paying an override commission to another salesperson for a short period to help find and close new business? Special considerations for salespeople.

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Startup Email Class Examples 156

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

At about the twenty-employee level, the organization is too large for one person to handle internal operations, and a new level of management must be inserted between the founder and the existing team, causing communication and control issues that many founders have not experienced. Your first two predictable growth crises. quality control.

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Class Customer Custom Email 156

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

From a practical standpoint, there are many ways to learn about business change, and the opportunities that may spring up at any moment. The common term for this is networking, but I find that many aspiring entrepreneurs like to do all the talking about their latest new idea and fail to listen.

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Startup Case Study Course Entrepreneur 142