Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Is there a market for your class of product at all? Totally controllable within your organization, the quality and durability of your finished product should be at the top of someone’s job description. This falls squarely on management to perform, to take the company to and beyond profitability. First, there is market risk.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2019

First, VC’s in general cannot invest in ‘S’ corporations or limited liability companies (LLC’s). More importantly, VC’s will worry over several issues when looking at a company and deciding about an investment. This is only a minor problem in that both forms can convert easily into ‘C’ corporations at low cost and little consequence.

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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? The post Do you really need a board of directors?

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If you are looking for money, this question will certainly come up in one form or another when you approach professional or organized angel or VC investors. And great management can morph a company to adopt without destroying the culture of the company in the process. Concentrate on a world class team.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If you are looking for money, this question will certainly come up in one form or another when you approach professional or organized angel or VC investors. And great management can morph a company to adopt without destroying the culture of the company in the process. Concentrate on a world class team.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Ideas Summary 120

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Professional angels, often organized into groups, usually invest from $100,000 to $1 million in a young enterprise.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 12, 2014

It is rare when one person starts a company, supplies all the funding, and shares no management tasks or equity with others, and still grows the company to any significant size, worthy of a multi-million dollar opportunity to cash out at exit. Email readers, continue here.] Think of it as the rule of the thirds.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2012

First, VC’s in general cannot invest in ‘S’ corporations or limited liability companies (LLC’s). More importantly, VC’s will worry over a number of issues when looking at a company and deciding about an investment. Email readers, continue here.]

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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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Berkonomics

JUNE 2, 2015

Email readers, continue here…] The first crisis is financial, funding the business, development, inventory, and marketing. And, as you grow, the same class of problems returns but with a larger scale and more urgent cry for attention – and more ruinous if not solved. The second crisis is organizational.

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Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2010

Of course the response depends upon lots of variables, including whether the company is in a fund-raising mode (in which case the CEO may be spending up to 80% of his or her time on this alone). Email readers continue here.] It is from over a thousand of these CEO presentations over the years that I attempt to make these generalities.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2015

Is there a market for your class of product at all? Email readers, continue here…] Second is product risk. Totally controllable within your organization, the quality and durability of your finished product should be at the top of someone’s job description. That discussion is for a future time. First, there is market risk.

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2011

Email readers, continue here.] We did find that niche and used it successfully for several years, in charging to certify and configure a company’s self-purchased PC’s so that they would work efficiently with our software systems. New retail channels popped up everywhere, competing for this lucrative, growing business segment.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Here is the warning: The execution of 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. … How about multiple classes of stock? a share, then options must be priced at that amount.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Email readers continue here.]. Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Venture capital comes with a cost, and there are no bargains for the company when taking such an investment.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. There is an exemption from the requirements that these investors be accredited with net worth or income minimums to qualify legally to invest in your company. Friends and family investors. Angel investment groups or funds.

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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. Yet in LA we have hugely successful entrepreneurs who have built big companies like Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, TicketMaster.com, LowerMyBills, Commission Junction, eHarmony and on and on.

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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

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

APRIL 3, 2014

We’ve spoken of financing a young company through friends and family, known as “inside angels.” There are three classes of equity investors for early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. Often grouped into formal organizations, these investors are sophisticated, helpful, and connected.

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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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Berkonomics

MAY 12, 2010

Email readers continue here.] It there is only one class of stock, the same as the founders, and the appraisal of the single class of shares yields, say $2.00 It there is only one class of stock, the same as the founders, and the appraisal of the single class of shares yields, say $2.00

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

You are forty, out of a job, a newlywed, your wife is expecting a baby, you don’t own your own home, you have no specialized qualifications, the only company you ever launched went bankrupt and you have just been sentenced to one year in jail.”. Excel at classes that interested you and perform poorly in those which did not.

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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. I always love visiting companies because you can tell so much about the character of the company by spending time in their offices. You get a feel for the company “vibe.”

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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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