Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

And yet, such relationships properly used and never overused, can quickly and precisely help a CEO cut through delays in government agencies, speed the process of product planning and ultimate release, aid in positioning in the market and help the CEO avoid a myriad of mistakes that could prove costly in time and money.

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Class Organization Activity Customer 243

InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

Instead of trying to teach students to be an entrepreneur, I expose my entrepreneurial students to tools that will help them solve real-world problems. I treat each of my classes as a product that the students are paying a lot of money to consume. My courses are rigorous and demanding. out of 5 in both Helpfulness and Clarity.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Class Course Case Study 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. This helps the startups with the most opportunity move forward quickly to greater success. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup.

Guide 136

Guide Venture Capital Funding Class 136

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.” This year an associate from Upfront Ventures – Glenn Poppe – helped me pull together more information about how our industry is changing.

Venture Capital 362

Venture Capital Capital Startup Writing 362

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

In what it calls a "video MBA", Santa Monica-based DocStoc has launched a major new feature of the site, aimed at helping small businesses and professionals learn about everything from building a brand, pitching their business plan, running an Adwords campaign, and more. Pricing on the new courses was not announced by the company.

Course 178

Course Santa Monica Sites Pricing 178

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby Here are some ideas of what I believe matters.

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2018

There are five major classes or niches a company should examine and make its own in calculating positioning in the marketplace. Here are a few examples to help you. So, here comes the lesson and your challenge…. The five major niches. They are: Price. Innovation. Your challenge: to find, position, and defend your niche.

Pricing 226

Pricing Competition Examples Class 226

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. Of course – some people can be remote. He of coursed required me to lobby on his behalf as well. Of course he pitched me the entire ride down. Jordan Hudson.

Startup 372

Startup Course Ideas Invest 372

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

As Boomers migrate to the Sunbelt, and everyone orders more online, I can hardly wait for drones to use the sky to help out. Education: More students and different classes. Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC) , that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches.

Demand 103

Demand Startup Course Summary 103

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have enough resources to bootstrap our own startups, so we are completely dependent on investors to help turn great ideas into great businesses. Of course, you need to show how your business will make money and provide an impressive investor return, but that should be only the beginning.

Ideas 140

Ideas Entrepreneur Equity Resource 140

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2016

And of course fudging never produces world-class results, so many companies suffer from mediocrity. And while leaders set direction, of course it is teams that deliver results. The leader can only point and recruit world-class people but the results are owed to the team. And trust me, the world is FILLED with naysayers.

Organization 150

Organization Course Ideas Class 150

Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. TakeLessons also acquired Chicago-based Betterfly, which offered online vocational classes, DIY projects, and self-improvement courses like public speaking and personal life coaching.

Venture Capital 59

Venture Capital San Diego Santa Monica Coach 59

Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

Marketing is a science devised to help drive customers to your door. These are still the driving focus behind most marketing courses, and deserve to be so. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. This is considered to be the producer-oriented model.

Marketing 201

Marketing Demand Pricing Customer 201

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. This helps the startups with the most opportunity move forward quickly to greater success. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup.

Funding 125

Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The investment will help to add more online classes to their already impressive offerings. The movement has grown to a include a bevy of online courses, workshops, and events that aim to guide the future employees of tomorrow into a field that needs more help than anyone ever thought.

Malibu 70

Malibu Funding Class Education 70

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 12, 2013

At the Wizard, classes are offered for: computers, software, tablets, phones, setup on stereo receivers, DVDs, cabling, and even how to make a patch cable. The classes are posted online and members can sign up. Per course: $9.99. He carefully explained everything to you while he was doing it and helped you learn and understand.

Course 124

Course Class Education Screening 124

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

They are always overlapping, so in essence, we have a freshman and senior class, so teams can collaborate, and get the benefit of the peers before them. Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that. We have two annual cohorts, each of which has a 12 month residency period.

Marina Del Rey 150

Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. 5 years ago. Since then? None have exited.

Venture Capital 387

Venture Capital Downey Writing Press 387

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2016

How do you help young people figure out and understand finance, in a simple, easy to understand format? We are taking the opportunity to build a relationship with Millennials and young students, at an early age, and help them navigate personal finance, and prepare for a lifetime of financial well being.

Course 100

Course Content Platform Resource 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2016

You may have much book learning in school to do and of course you’ll learn about friendship, love and responsibility but the person you’ll one day become when your own children stand at the bimah is already — you. I told you — jokingly of course — that we should go and rough him up. Much of your personality and your character are set.

Course 231

Course Startup Competition Class 231

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This can help you get in the door when you are ready, and asking questions early will give you insights on investor priorities. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver. The time to build investor relationships is before you need the investment.

Marketing 105

Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas 105

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather. Of course there’s the usual suspects like Google, Intel, Salesforce.com and Qualcomm but the total number of corporate VCs has more than doubled in the past 4 years from 61 major programs to 131. GLOBAL seems here to stay unless something stupid Trump’s it.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2015

UC Irvine is jumping onto the big data bandwagon, saying this week that it has launched a new, online course specifically aimed at helping individuals learn all about big data.

UCI 100

UCI IBM IBM Education 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2013

Fast forward two and a half years later and ProProfs is one of the leading online tools that lets the public and private sectors to create online quizzes, polls, surveys, flashcards, and classes with an extensive list of options. Creating an online class or tutorial is simple on ProProfs.

Tool 77

Tool Class HTML Course 77

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The integration of massively open online courses (MOOCs) makes strategic sense, which is likely why LinkedIn acquired Lynda for $1.5 Indeed, whether you’re a producer, screenwriter, director, actor, cinematographer, editor, art director or composer (or some combination of these) Stage 32 offers classes to meet your specific needs.

Education 82

Education Entertainment Class Manhattan Beach 82

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help. Underbelly.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Maseeh also said the prize will come associated with a new course at the USC Viterbi school, which will help engineers learn about business plans and creating viable businesses from their ideas. The Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition (MEPC) is expected to have its first competition in the spring.

USC 214

USC Southern California SoCalTech Competition 214

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Many people have helped us along the way with guidance, mentorship, introductions and advice.

Venture Capital 396

Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

Arjan Schutte: Our fund has a big mission, to invest in financial technology for the emerging middle class. There are 80 million Americans in this emerging class, who are unbanked and underbanked. We want to give them better financial tools, help them save more money of that not much money they do have, and become upwardly mobile.

Capital 183

Capital Startup Los Angeles Invest 183

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. In Summary.

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded. Some borrowers would prefer to deal with the original lender if a problem arises during the course of the loan, he said.

San Diego 40

San Diego Help Software Review Funding 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

This can help you get in the door when you are ready, and asking questions early will give you insights on investor priorities. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver. The time to build investor relationships is before you need the investment.

Search Engine Optimization 174

Search Engine Optimization Ideas Startup Customer 174

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. Of course triangulation is a mathematics term that is used in sailing and other activities to help you better navigate when you don’t have your bearings. Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had.

Startup 407

Startup Framework CTO Coach Sales 407

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

To be clear – I’m not saying huge successes make a VC less likely to be helpful to you – I’m just saying it’s not a guaranteed predictor. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Connections?

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Designed at the University of Southern California as a class project, the team has made 10 prototypes for beta testing for this life-sized board game, allowing over 700 people to enjoy the game. Working on Doozy during my last year and a half at USC was a fine balance between class, work, social life, and of course, sleep.

Southern California 99

Southern California USC Class Conference 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2015

Despite the rush in every academic institution to offer more courses on entrepreneurship, I still haven’t found it to be something you can learn in school. Of course, you can pick up the basic principles this way, but the problem is that the practical rules for success are changing so fast that no academic can keep up.

Startup 103

Startup Case Study Entrepreneur Class 103

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The message of the panel was very clear – “We don’t need your help. And of course he’s right. He didn’t finish high school but had a strong knack for helping promote young hip hop artists and worked with P Diddy, Biggie Smalls, Will Smith and others. you’re not following him?).

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Startup Course Entrepreneur 150