Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

Which leads us to the second class of creative board thinking…. Good board meetings allow time, and the chairman encourages members to ask strategic questions to help focus the board on its best use of that time. Importantly, these also help a board to cover the legal “duty of care” for the health of the company.

Company 243

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Berkonomics

APRIL 28, 2016

But things have gotten much more complicated lately, partly because of the Uber, Lyft and other new generation of workers and the best description of their class as “semi–independent.”. If each considers this a contract, there should be documentation, but that would lean toward independent contractor.). More difficult.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The sales professional. The financial suit. The operations superstar.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 123

InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2011

"We provide the best quality and widest selection of documents to help you start, grow and manage your small business and professional life. " 6) You are the only person I have ever met who was Class President of both their undergraduate (UC Santa Barbara) and their graduate (Pepperdine) schools.

Pepperdine 234

Pepperdine Startup Santa Barbara Class 234

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.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley. Four Steps was essentially my class notes. Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. One of the best students I ever had. Eric got it faster than anybody I had ever seen.

Startup 229

Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2018

In my UCSB classes , my students practice their Personal Pitch in front of their peers, who give them constructive feedback. This will give your employees public speaking practice and help them better understand the company’s origin and mission. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Entrepreneur Class Examples 133

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The sales professional. The financial suit. The operations superstar.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 123

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2010

With your agent’s help, you should be very careful to place employees in the proper but most advantageous class for the sake of the policy. These audits are often merely by telephone to your bookkeeper for small companies, rising to physical audits of submitted documents or in person for larger enterprises.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jackson, CEO and co-founder of CapLinked (www.caplinked.com), which is developing tools to help entrepreneurs and investors connect. Eric is also author of the book The PayPal Wars: Battles With Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, And the Rest of Planet Earth , where he documented that experience. How do you do that?

Southern California 243

Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. Coming back with an empty chamber for the third battle is much worse than not coming back.

Venture Capital 182

Venture Capital Statistics Writing Report 182

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

The videos on our web site have some proprietary techniques you can't find elsewhere, and we have thousands of heavy science videos on the site -- everything from Nobel prize winners, to National Geographic, to class videos on science and related to science, and even to things students are doing in high school.

Journal 124

Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

When you anticipate losses for the first year or two, it is more important to properly document all expenses, including tricky ones like business travel, business meals, and your home office. I recommend one of the many cloud-based and low-cost tools to help, such as the Viewpost business network. In fact, just the opposite is true.

Startup 65

Startup Patents Tool Organization 65

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How to protect against founder role changes over time: To protect against this, there must be some document in place from the beginning that clearly states the expectation of each founder as to contribution of time and resources to the enterprise. Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here.

Equity 156

Equity Class Pricing Sales 156

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Trying to work without this person is like wanting to build a world class sky scraper but not having a great lead architect and civil engineer. They don’t love documentation. Examples: - every time you release new features you need to update your technical documentation. - I’ve heard both arguments from CTO’s.

CTO Hire 400

CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Don’t wait for someone else to send you back to class, or push you to change. It’s always positive to document your expertise and accomplishments, in the context of needs that you see in your current company and position. Proactively prepare for your desired future roles. Make the investment.

Examples 85

Examples Social Media Competition Guide 85

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

This is smart because amazing board members can be transformative with important advice and access and can also help attract other great board members (and team members). I actually think having a formal board can really help you. Bad board members can make business very unpleasant. Do you need a board when you first start you company?

Startup 236

Startup Venture Capital Tips Capital 236

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The sales professional. The financial suit. The operations superstar.

Technical Advisors 105

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 105

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. It's a very linear process, and allows them to capture knowledge and link to centralized resources that relate to a topic, including documents, pictures, files, video.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

These could be support related, or education related, or a package of product and services for a new class of customers. It may sound easy, but requires tremendous effort to document every process, establish vendor relationships, and monitor all stages of every implementation. Add services that are complementary to your product.

Startup 98

Startup Customer Custom Entrepreneur 98

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The sales professional. The financial suit. The operations superstar.

Technical Advisors 57

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Leverage: with teachers not having to have in-person classes you can build a more cost-effective model and teaching can be targeted more to your individual needs. They help you built insights into whom you connect with the most via email or whom you haven’t contacted in a long time. SendGrid helps improve delivery.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

Our global and diverse team of engineers, scientists, and researchers with world-class expertise in video conferencing, object recognition, object tracking, and augmented reality is committed to continuous innovation and fostering an entrepreneurial culture that will accelerate the commercialization of our revolutionary technologies.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The sales professional. The financial suit. The operations superstar.

Technical Advisors 98

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

These could be support related, or education related, or a package of product and services for a new class of customers. It may sound easy, but requires tremendous effort to document every process, establish vendor relationships, and monitor all stages of every implementation. Add services that are complementary to your product.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Customer Custom .Net 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

GraphEffect’s API previously limited to select developers, is opening to the public and will enable developers to bring additional best-in-class tools to marketers. He said, “Our goal is to disrupt the marketing ecosystem by building the platform that brings all the different parties together and helps marketers work together smarter.”.

Social Network 65

Social Network Marketing Networking Social Media 65

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Steve: I am the CEO, chairman and cofounder, Explorys , an IBM Watson Health company that uses data and analytics solutions to support life sciences industry research and commercial strategies by helping translate data into meaningful insights. What are some of the inputs that have helped your ecosystem grow?

Startup 70

Startup Platform CIO Entrepreneur 70

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

According to Kaleio founder & CEO, Jim Riley, “This partnership marks a significant step in us becoming an invaluable resource for college students and working-class professionals to not only find and apply for job openings or internships, but to also leverage the power of their network and others within their targeted industry.”.

Yahoo 100

Yahoo Platform Social Network Tool 100

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

To protect against this, there must be some document in place from the beginning that clearly states the expectation of each founder as to contribution of time and resources to the enterprise. Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here. a share, then options must be priced at that amount.

Equity 256

Equity Class Pricing Sales 256

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

As a teacher, you can share documents with colleagues, or visit and forum and have discussions with other teachers. After that, I was involved in a lot of angel investing, starting companies, and helping entrepreneurs to get going. They were looking for someone to help and guide them. They have developed this from a need.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

You may remember from 8th grade science class that Brownian motion describes the random movement of atomic matter, caused by collisions with molecules of the surrounding medium. The student who sold class notes had to convince the smart kids that they were getting adequate value by giving up their notes for free (i.e.,

Ideas 153

Ideas Startup Pricing Entrepreneur 153

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Working with startup lawyers also minimizes the risk of losing control of your adVenture, as they can help you avoid common fundraising and investor pitfalls. In addition, such an arrangement will further cement your lawyer’s incentive to help you succeed. This will allow you to defer a portion of your of up-front legal costs.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Chance was recently featured on Fox News for comments on Facebook’s high profile acquisition of wearable VR company, Oculus, for an impressive $2B – and what that meant for early adopters who initially helped the company get off the ground by funding through Kickstarter. Laundry list of all necessary documentation.

Invest 83

Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

Daradiction

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

My pal and coach Aaron Ross aka @MotoCeo really helped me break some things down. Aaron has been helping us think through our sales process and we’re currently getting ready to launch our sales efforts using Salesforce.com, where Aaron used to be Sr. Time to enjoy my Friday night and prep for my comedy class tomorrow.

Startup 49

Startup Sales Coach Class 49

TechEmpower

MARCH 27, 2013

I'll do my best to keep this document up to date. A common scenario in Java libraries is, for some interface Foo , there would be a companion utility class Foos with static methods for generating or working with Foo instances. An interface cannot provide a default implementation for any of the methods of the Object class.

Java 560

Java Class Software Review Examples 560

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

We caught up with Greg Brogger , the firm's CEO, to understand the service and how it might help private investors. trillion asset class we realized there was a real opportunity here. For example, in a Right of First Refusal, we explain what it is, and provide a referral to a securities law attorney to help with the process.

Startup 124

Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Leading advertising networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale and many others license our platform to help their advertisers and publishers easily create, manage, track, and optimize call-based advertising campaigns.”. Our platform helps them do that. Our partners put a lot of trust in us.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209