Berkonomics

APRIL 15, 2021

A story of a CEO attuned to creating great company culture. A CEO friend of mine who managed her one-hundred-person remote workforce as a virtual company told me her story of how she welcomed new employees as she grew her firm. You will be successful at our company!” Strike that. She over-welcomed her new employees.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2017

As my enterprise computer software company which produced innovative lodging systems for hotels and resorts grew quickly, we found ourselves straining to keep up with the hiring and training of good customer support representatives, a critical part of the equation then and still so today in the 24-hour environment of hotel front desk operations.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2020

Let’s say that your company is exactly at breakeven. There is amazing leverage in high gross profit margins once a company is past breakeven. An example to make this clear. The point is that once your company is stable at or above the breakeven point, one incremental unit generates robust increases in net profit.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Here is the warning: The execution of partnership equity allocations and of a good incentive program using equity is often mismanaged, damaging the corporate capitalization structure and even affecting the outcome of subsequent investment into the company. Equity is divided between the founders and the business begun.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

We lose both when we catch someone, especially someone above us, acting differently than his or her self-proclaimed rules, or even violating company rules. Why have rules, or a company handbook, or new employee orientation sessions if the actions don’t match the words? Everything you do as a manager is watched by one or many.

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2016

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. I’ve recently experienced an example of this. 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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Berkonomics

MAY 27, 2021

They protect the company by overseeing the expenditure of company money for expansion, acquisitions, purchases of large assets, hiring of senior management and more. The average board for a company taking outside investment money is five. Well, how many should be on my board?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

Every investor wants regular information from companies taking their money. And most of us investors are frustrated by the lack of regular communication – unless of course – the company needs more money. First, let’s cover the absolute minimum legal requirement a company must provide to its investors.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 17, 2016

Let’s break this down into two examples using Bob and John. “A list of problematic interview questions would stretch to circle the globe…” the company will interview the same candidate, a woman named Sally – 45–years–old, married, with two children. Each head of. Bob believes immigrants are lazy.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Too many startup businesses, especially in the technology world, are built upon brand new concepts that have not yet been proven in the field against products from other companies that already have revenues flowing. If others have created awareness of the market, you need only compare yourself favorably to those companies.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Too many startup businesses, especially in the technology world, are built upon brand new concepts that have not yet been proven in the field against products from other companies that already have revenues flowing. If others have created awareness of the market, you need only compare yourself favorably to those companies.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 2, 2014

A CEO friend of mine who manages her one hundred person remote workforce as a virtual company told me her story of how she welcomes new employees as she grows her firm. Email readers, continue here.] “You will be successful at our company!” How about teaching a class in corporate culture yourself to one or more new employees?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 6, 2022

First, the marginal exit event: Sometimes the end game or sale of the company is not a happy event for the early investors, including the entrepreneur or the founders. Promissory notes come before any equity, and most late equity investments come before early equity investments, even of the same class of security.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments. And we who held early stock celebrated together the ringing of the NYSE opening bell the day that often pivoting company went public. Finding your ideal niche Positioning'

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

First, let’s cover the absolute minimum legal requirement a company has to provide to its investors. Email readers, continue here.] That burden is an ongoing cost of taking the investment, much as a public company takes on the additional burden of governmental reporting, both adding to costs over time.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’ve just completed an investment in Ryan Carson’s new company, TreeHouse. I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. TreeHouse is also a video company. Yet nearly every major tech company or major company hiring tech people have open recs.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

They protect the company by overseeing the expenditure of company money for expansion, acquisitions, purchases of large assets, hiring of senior management and more. The average board for a company taking outside investment money is five. Building Great Boards available at berkus.com and Amazon Kindle Singles.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? For two years, it was a mentorship program, that worked with twenty three different companies, but did not have a fund, did not have an office, and didn't take any equity. Then, it turned out, all of those companies did really well. Our current class has performed incredibly well.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Too many startup businesses, especially in the technology world, are built upon brand new concepts that have not yet been proven in the field with products from other companies that have revenues flowing. Email readers, continue here.] Certainly there were resources available to point the company toward the information.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2010

As my enterprise computer software company which produced innovative lodging systems for hotels and resorts grew quickly, we found ourselves straining to keep up with the hiring and training of good customer support representatives, a critical part of the equation then and still so today in the 24 hour environment of hotel front desk operations.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. In Art Of The Start , you encourage your readers to be responsive and to strive to return emails within 24-hours. My recommendation is that it is cheaper than ever to start a company. If there was ever a time to start a company, this is it.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

You imagined him as the kid in your class at school at the front of the room raising his hand at every question and saying, “Oooh, me. Even the VC who invested in your deal struggles to properly position why you’re going to be huge when they’re calling big tech companies or other VCs on your behalf. Call on me.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

SciVee recently inked a major deal with Thomson Reuters, and Marc tells us a bit about that deal as well as the company's business. For example, an author can talk about their recent research, which was published in a scientific journal, and highlight key findings. What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 29, 2013

How can you protect your company''s reputation when a rouge customer unjustly flames your startup? In searching for world-class examples of public responses to irate customers'' complaints, I found one that emanated from an unlikely place, Savusavu, Fiji. This pattern holds true for Tui Tai Expeditions.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. Example: I was recently in China and had three public appearances. Zone of Effectiveness – The examples that Covey talks about here are things like exercise and planning.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz? Eric Frankel: StarGreetz is a digital media content company, that allows brands to stand out in a very cluttered marketplace. How did the company come about? Finally, what are the next steps for the company?

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

For our readers who haven't heard of the Progressive Automotive X Prize, can you talk about what it's all about? They have to be able to have a 200 mile range in the mainstream class, and 100 miles in the alternate. You can already put down money for the Aptera, which is a Southern California company, or the Tango.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., Explain to our readers why you started your company, and why you created your app myLINGO. Share with our readers your experience surrounding the launch of the app. Explain to our readers what you learned from seeing myLINGO in action.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Let me give you an example. If you take 2,000 of the world’s top performing companies, only 29 (1.5%) are run by women. It’s a fact, women aren’t good at running companies. If they were they’d be running more successful companies. They must be languishing by running many unsuccessful companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. He first worked hard to get him to be an advisor to the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

I was recently approached by Fast Company to comment on “crisis management&# at startups in the wake of the Airbnb “ranksackgate&# story. I agreed to do the interview because the story was about what other companies can learn rather than about airbnb in particular. What are the teachable moments? Know Your Key Messages.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. No, the question is: What are doing now knowing that a big company will copy your idea?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

The travel companies offer brochures showing private beaches and phenomenal sights. You can fly first class and not talk to fellow passengers. Examples in My Life & Work. I always love visiting companies because you can tell so much about the character of the company by spending time in their offices.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The original spark came, because my daughter, Naomi, who is six and was in first grade at the time, took a Lego Robotics class. Within six weeks, we had founded the company. That allows pre-readers to play, and also any kid in any part of the world can play the game, because there are no language issues.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

On opposite pages were two ads for two very large companies. The irony is that currently both these onetime best in class companies are now in deep trouble. The result is that I, the reader, had no interest in what was being sold in the ad yet I am a consumer in both verticals. And that was what had caught my attention.

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