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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

How do you value pre-revenue companies? Last time we examined ten different ways to value companies already in revenue, usually beyond the early stage. For those of us who’ve invested in early-stage companies, especially technology startups, we have confronted a universal problem.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Here’s one for executives of any company with next generation products in mind. In many companies, there are quiet geniuses, wanting to work on projects outside of the daily focus of the department or company. Technology companies are prime targets for this problem. . First, let’s recognize the problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

So I recommend a high-level “state of the company” email a couple of times a year but a message that you assume might get shown to others. We led an investment round in a company a while ago in which we wrote a seven-figure check and have taken a board seat. Let me give you a real world example from this week.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2023

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. “Can we afford to do this?” “Is Generative.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 20, 2025

If fixed expenses, especially payroll, are paid out before cash is received from services or shipments, the company is financing its growth with ever-increasing working capital needs. And oil is a lubricant [Email readers, continue here…] But the most important lesson to remember is that cash is the great lubricant for businesses.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2018

Expect a board member to give a meeting a month, emails and phone calls between. Board members are usually busy people, often running other companies or serving on multiple boards. In addition, most all board members freely receive phone calls and emails from the CEO during the month, all considered part of service.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 19, 2025

No matter what your company produces, there is surely a more efficient way to approach the process with our without AI tools. Consultants, outsourcing, and scrapping the system [Email readers, continue here…] If internal resources cannot handle the solution, it is time to find an outside resource that can.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

Glossier, the popular beauty brand led by former blogger Emily Weiss, let go of 80 of its corporate employees today, according to an internal email obtained by Modern Retail. The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here’s an example: Take for example the manufacturing company with a small quality problem in one component, resulting in a test failure rate above the norm. Email readers, continue here…] The same careful management applies to virtually every person and process in the organization. Is this just your problem?

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This creates exciting opportunities for people to use nutrition even more effectively as a source of consistent, overall health and wellness,” Barber wrote in an email. Upon leaving the program, each company will also receive a small seed round to ensure that they can continue to grow the business, M13 said.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

She responded back that (paraphrasing), “he had gotten stuck at a conference with a very important potential advisor to his company. I wrote him the following email. In this case it warrants a personal email (or better yet a phone call) from you and a Herculean effort to reschedule the meeting. They came from New York.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

company, with 26 programmers in his fold. The company had grown to 233 employees and served 16% of all automated hotels worldwide at that time. Email readers, continue here…] One day Tom came to me and said, “I want to transfer to marketing. Five years later, I received an email from Tom. Good to hear from you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

Most board members don’t have the intention of checking email, reading the news or sending a quick text message but just like most smokers don’t want to pull out a cigarette?—?the It’s super distracting when your executives are typing away at email while the rest of the board is meant to be engaged in a discussion.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. The company confirmed that all operations should be concluded by later this summer. Below is a screenshot of the email sent Tuesday morning to Maven customers.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2023

Smart money at the table… I have served on the boards of several companies with just such VC talent at the table, partners in firms that made subsequent investments in companies where I either made early investments or led a group of fellow investors in early rounds of finance.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

I’ve been having this PR discussion with three separate portfolio companies at once so I thought I’d just publish my thoughts more broadly. PR is an insanely valuable activity in early-stage companies. It’s much hard to get funded as a company nobody has heard of. Business Development - Biz Dev is hard.

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

It is a medium range process involving senior management and departmental management as well, directing resources in ways that, as accomplished, lead the company toward the goal. Here are some example strategies from some of my companies over the recent years. Yet each is measurable if achieved.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 16, 2020

There are more than 100,000 local restaurants on the Uber Eats app, according to the company. That’s why we’re waiving the Delivery Fee for all orders from every independent restaurant on Uber Eats —more than 100,000 local restaurants on the app,” the company said in an email Monday morning. and Canada.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

As somebody who has to rub shoulders with big tech companies often I can tell you that there is much blood spilled in the competitive trenches of Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google and so on. Powerful countries & companies act powerful because they can. But let’s put this into perspective. Changes to algorithms.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 12, 2025

How much risk you and your company are willing and able to tolerate over time? Most people believe that early stage companies should take risks aggressively because there is less to lose and much more to gain with each risky bet or decision. Take an extreme risk once, and you may win the bet. Your average is 100%.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 26, 2021

Others want to know that they are signing on to a career, not a job, and expect to move up within the ranks or on to a larger company that can accommodate their goals. With some people you hire, you know you are just renting their services as they pass through your organization, aimed at a higher calling. So, is this a one-sided negotiation?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Here’s the question: This piece of wisdom came from Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, during a board meeting for one of the companies where he sits as board member. Email readers, continue here…] We worry over projections and fix our budgets to match, and then we manage to the revenue and costs of the budget.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

Remember that the goal of an email to a VC or an introduction from a trusted mutual connection is simply to get you the meeting. You can make it 8–12 pages and the Title Page can say “YourCo Teaser Deck” or “YourCo Company Backgrounder”) so that it’s clear this isn’t your full pitch deck if you want. The key is WHAT you send.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

CEO of a recruiting firm who “virtualized” her company after a decade of maintaining a fixed office location. Much larger recruiting companies were in trouble, with high fixed costs for facilities that could not be shed quickly. That depends upon the management as much as the employee. I have a friend who is a.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Take for example the manufacturing company with a small quality problem in one component, resulting in a test failure rate above the norm. Email readers, continue here…] The same careful management applies to virtually every person and process in the organization.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Several years ago, I became involved with a Southeast Asian company looking to expand into the United States. Had the office been located to accommodate either one, the company would have had to find replacements in the same geographical area as the office. So, can a startup exist for a reasonably long time as a virtual company?

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Berkonomics

MARCH 8, 2018

Pay early stage board members of companies that are not lifestyle businesses one percent of the fully diluted equity in the form of an option that vests over four years of service. You do not pay professional investors who are serving on behalf of an investment company or VC and paid by that company.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2024

But the moment things turn sour, including missed plans, some investors on company boards go into a predictable mode of dictating terms for emergency loans or additional investment. Something like a marriage (and often lasting just as long statistically), your investment partner can be a great cheerleader, coach and resource.

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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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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Especially if they have sold their companies and live comfortably upon the proceeds, these people are often the most willing to help and the most patient through the process. Email readers, continue here…] How do you pay a coach? His average percentage of a company was 5% in return for spending a day a week as I recall.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I have served on the boards of several companies with just such VC talent at the table, partners in firms that made subsequent investments in companies where I either made early investments or led a group of fellow investors in early rounds of finance.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2020

According to an email to current customers of Hollar--known for its "dollar store" style, grab bag of products--Hollar will "soon become Five Below" and continue to offer up its $1 to $5 products, and occasional products of up to $10. Financial details of that deal were not disclosed by either of the companies.

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Berkonomics

JULY 20, 2023

and this is a forecast: [Email readers, continue here…] But during the year, if the forecast revenues fall short or are greatly exceeded, it is fair to revise the budget and rethink your hiring and resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. I would likely open up your deck, read it again and begin contemplating your company again.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 17, 2021

When test results are ready, customers get an email with a link to a website to get their results. Trenkle said the company will comply with its legal obligations under state law, but stopped short of explicitly saying if the company plans to notify customers of the vulnerability. How to respond to a data breach.

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