TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Utilizing AI, the tool interprets the queries, scans through a broad range of documents spread across different repositories, and delivers relevant answers. Utilizing AI, the tool interprets the queries, scans through a broad range of documents spread across different repositories, and delivers relevant answers.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering. There is no middle ground. Resetting your priorities Taking money from these sources involves resetting priorities over time.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Changing the deal that late in the game is nearly impossible, after other investors have already completed their documents and the deal supposedly put to bed. What if it is the company attorney or entrepreneur that finds the stinky clause so very late in the game? Email readers, continue here.]

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

And good board members can add real value to you and the company. Email readers, continue here…] Generative thinkers are relentless in asking questions that get to the core of an idea, often making the originator think more deeply about the effects over a longer period of time. A better company is the goal. Generative.

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Berkonomics

JULY 23, 2020

Sometimes the end game or sale of the company is not a happy event. Email readers, continue here…] A recent decision by the Delaware Court in favor of the common shareholders in marginal sales sheds light upon this dilemma for boards – at least for boards of Delaware corporations, no matter where they reside.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Lawyers will tell you that this progressive chain of moves is good for the company, protecting against lawsuits by a disgruntled former employee. In most states, employees gain rights after the ninetieth day on the job that makes it more difficult to fire an underperforming employee without careful documentation of reasons for concern.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

They write in their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Even venture capitalists who sit on boards where they have significant investments often forget this point.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2021

San Diego-based legal and accounting software provider AbacusNext, and New York-based Zola Suite said last week that the two companies are combining. Financial terms of the merger were not announced. AbacusNext is led by CEO Scott Johnson, with Zola Suite founded and led by CEO Fred Cohen.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2020

That’s a comprehensive piece on a company for use by a buyer in determining fit. All corporate governance documents, from incorporation articles to minutes of all meetings of the board are maintained in the deal room. Up-to-date insurance policies, leases, financial documents and schedules such as fixed assets are copied here.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 5, 2021

When do most companies communicate? Early stage company investors as a group have a common gripe – almost universal. Information flows from the company irregularly, in fact most often when the company is urgently in need of more money. How companies do gain traction for additional rounds.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] On the final day of our assignment, I was responsible for the “reporting out” to the assembled twenty or so executives in the large conference room of this major corporation. A personal story of ignorance of good advice. I have a partner in a consulting practice that specializes in the travel industry.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Once a company founder has tapped the funds available from his or her resources and from friends and family, if the company needs more cash for growth, the most obvious next step is to look for money from angel investors and venture capitalists, typically in the $300,000 TO $3,000,000 range.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Los Angeles-based Family Archival Solutions is hoping that its new, online service will help address those issues, by letting users manage both their digital--and physical--documents. Family Archival Solutions was founded by Mark Nichols, who the company said is an attorney with 20 years of experience in the field. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Having read his latest op-ed on email I know why I erred towards the side of of not loving his book as much as some did. Apparently he’s an “organizational psychologist professor and thinks that it’s rude not to answer email. I also surmise that perhaps organizational psychologists don’t get as much unsolicited emails as some of us do.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I was chairman of a company that had been offered an investment by a Fortune 500 company offering to make a strategic investment in our business, which would be capable of driving new demand to the large company through a series of new web services creating a greater need for the large company’s products.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2018

NetDocuments , the provider of secure cloud-based document, email, and collaboration management software for the legal industry, which is backed by Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital , says it has named a CFO. According to the companies, NetDocuments has named Pete Childs as its new Chief Financial Officer.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 20, 2020

So, you’ve found the buyer, received a letter of interest, signed it, and exclusively tied your company up for a period to complete the deal. Email readers, continue here…] First, should you inform your employees of the deal? Few companies are squeaky clean. Everyone on the board is anxious to close this.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 12, 2018

Small companies most often scrape by with borrowed or invested funds, doing everything possible to grow and prosper with limited resources. So, it is like a punch in the gut when an employee makes a claim against the company for a perceived or actual but unintentional violation of a law or regulation. So, my advice is simple.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 27, 2023

Everyone who manages a company, a workgroup or a sales force wants to write as many new deals as possible and is usually wary about doing anything that might threaten the positive outcome of a pending sale. Do so within the offer document and with a personal comment with delivery of the offer. We hesitate to enforce our own rules.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 30, 2020

Your value to the company. Email readers, continue here…] So, how do you regain that enthusiasm for what is best for you and for the company? Take a day – a full day – off to walk, sit, and think of where you want this company and your role in it to be in the future. It is where the fun is.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2019

Match Group , the parent company of dating- and hookup- app Tinder , has sued Tinder co-founder Sean Rad over trade secret protection agreements. The lawsuit claims Rad "surreptitiously" copied a vast number of documents and emails belonging to Tinder employees, "in order to advance his personal interests."

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 14, 2021

A person with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch that the incident happened in January after one of the company’s cloud storage buckets, hosted on Amazon’s cloud, was left open and unprotected. The company fixed the data spill, but has not yet alerted its customers. How to respond to a data breach. Learn more. .

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Lawyers will tell you that this progressive chain of moves is good for the company, protecting against lawsuits by a disgruntled former employee. In most states, employees gain rights after the ninetieth day on the job that make it more difficult to fire an underperforming employee without careful documentation of reasons for concern.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group announced this morning that it has acquired NetDocuments , a provider of cloud-based document management, email management, and collaboration software for law firms and corporate legal and compliance customers. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Especially in companies with unusually stifling cultures allowing few errors or deviations from the handbook or rules, some new employees just cannot adapt. My experience is that it is better for both the new hire and the company to make the. Ninety days or longer later, if. We have a 90-day trial to test this.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering. So be aware that professional investors are in your company for the eventual large profits at the liquidity event.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 18, 2018

And it is that disconnected employee, usually one or more of the better performers, that starts looking for a job when times look bad for a company. Email readers, continue here…] Sometimes a secondary fund-raising effort leads to a lower valuation than the last. Investor loyalty is most tenuous of all.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Since I have been involved at the board level with so many companies over the years, sometimes I can see connections that might be missed by a CEO with a singular focus. So, I was surprised and excited when one of these verbal fishing expeditions during a lunch brought up a technology the company had patented years before and forgotten.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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Berkonomics

JULY 30, 2020

When we are young and early in our business lives, we feel infallible to the degree that we do not think of what might happen if we die while in office or decide to leave the company for any reason. Another died of an infection immediately upon returning from his honeymoon. And a third died on the operating table during a heart operation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. Your deck should be so good that a VC asks you for permission to show it to his or her portfolio companies.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2012

John Payne is a experienced entrepreneur, who has run two, public Internet companies -- Stamps.com and Day Software -- in addition to helping to run a number of startups. We caught up with John to learn about what Zumbox is up to nowadays in the digital postal delivery area, after Series C round announced by the company earlier this month.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 3, 2013

That’s a comprehensive piece on a company for use by a buyer in determining fit. All corporate governance documents, from incorporation articles to minutes of all meetings of the board are maintained in the deal room. Up-to-date insurance policies, leases, financial documents and schedules such as fixed assets are copied here.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the developer of secure document sharing software led by Eric Jackson, said this morning that it has released a new set of Information Security (InfoSec) tools, aimed at helping companies to protect information they are sharing with external parties. Pricing on the new offering was not announced.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Several times in my investing life, as the final board member making the arrangements to dispose of remaining assets, I have literally been the one to turn out the lights, carry out the documents, books and records to my car, and become the only remaining contact between the failed business and the investors, bankruptcy court, or creditors.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 14, 2018

Then the professor reveals the action the company executive took to resolve the problem, often one not considered by the students. He then pulls out the now signed company copy and returns to his office with just that copy in hand. The bank clerk approves, adds the amount to the loan and company’s cash account, and all is well.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

According to Glip, any individual with a.edu email address can sign up for free to use its team communications and collaboration service. Glip''s service lets users share documents, share and manage tasks, keep shared calendars, and collaborate through text and video group chat. Glip normally charges per user for its service.

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