Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is defined as the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. Email readers, continue here.]

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Most CEOs want to obtain information about their competitors in the most subtle and non-obvious ways. A fair example In my former industry, I became an informal centralized source for knowledge about the revenues of each of the many competitors, with a special skill for asking just the right questions to obtain the information.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. It turns out it's not just a quick line of code to send an email -- it's also a hassle to make sure that those emails get delivered, that your email isn't classified as spam, and handling all sorts of delivery issues.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Leading by example. By being a visible example. A friend and fellow CEO states that he publishes each of his mistakes in his company internal blog along with the lesson he learned. “If And what does it say about your corporate culture and your individual management style?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

We sat down with TX Zhuo , who is heading up the firm's venture investments, about the fund and his path here after a recent stint at Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors fund in Palo Alto. We do mostly seed and Series A, and the occasional series B round, especially if we get into the company in seed or Series A level.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. ” Good f **g luck.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Here’s a striking example. The most striking example was the one hundred million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash. Don’t rule a too–high negotiated price out until you think carefully about the terms of purchase as a tool for leverage.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 10, 2021

How about all those daily decisions? An example to make the point. Take for example, solving key technology problems that prevent a product from shipment, or from scaling to large production. How about early-stage companies with unique problems? It is true in every business, all the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

by an expert and friend in this space, Arnie Kuenn , which offers guidance and examples on new and modern approaches for the rest of us: Build a blog. The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. This shows your knowledge and positions your company as a thought leader. You are the company you keep.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

“You can’t build a large online video company. You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” What most people never understood about Maker Studios is that much of their growth came through technology innovation and advantages on our back-end the most people didn’t even know about.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2022

What about hiding the “why” from employees or investors? I’ve recently experienced an example of this. One of my companies where I have an investment and am on the advisory board was in the midst of a sprint to close its acquisition by a larger company before the cash ran out and enterprise value plummeted.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

We all know about AngelGate by now. Here’s what you need to know… As a funny coincidence I happend to have written about the topic of collusion 3 weeks prior to the fateful dinner. They’re not in search of price fixing or collusion, they’re in search of diligence information about the company.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I created the term “time bankruptcy” almost thirty years ago when the computer software business was young, and I was a software developer building a young company based upon quality first. About that time, the first would call asking for completion, firmly but politely. Select too many, and pay too little attention to each.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Let's take a look at some of the many ways businesses can benefit from these new models to streamline operations and deliver faster and more accurate results.We’ll begin by looking at some real-world examples and then we’ll dive into more details of how these improved search capabilities can enhance your business.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Yet, there are constant examples of new entrants into a niche that do grow, prosper and sometimes even become dominant. In one industry I know well, the dominant player with 22% market share was acquired by one of the largest companies in the technology world. Forgotten about selected vertical markets within the niche?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2019

And that certainly counts for customers too, although the customer jungle drums don’t communicate quite as fast as the virtual water cooler system, even with today’s many ways of posting negative reviews about company behavior. An example of doing this right. A personal example of reinforcing corporate culture.

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2018

Dell is a great example of emphasis upon fast, creating a customized computer in 48 hours or less, bringing in assemblies and components just-in-time to make the assembly line. However, if Dell quality were poor and returns high, the company surely would not have survived on speed of response alone. More examples of fast above better.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2018

There are five major classes or niches a company should examine and make its own in calculating positioning in the marketplace. Think about your positioning. Companies that compete on price rarely compete against others who emphasize service or quality. Here are a few examples to help you. The five major niches.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 25, 2013

Apple is a remarkable company. Apple was a remarkable company. Something has to happen to keep this company going and growing. If Apple were my company, here’s what I would do: 1. For example, on iOS, rework all the most popular apps to tackle new tasks and increase productivity. Wait, retract. Then again.

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Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2020

Have you ever lost all your data on your smartphone, laptop, company server or desktop PC? But what about the shock of a fire, a major natural disaster, or even the loss of an important company top executive? How about yourself? My past examples of frightening risk events. The initial shock of data loss.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 3, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] Yet, we have all done this in one form or another, some harmlessly, some with intent to deceive. An often-expressed example seems to come from the salesperson who quotes a larger number of users or customers than the facts support. Let’s examine motive before result. Yes, we’ve seen gray areas.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This probably isn’t news to developers, but it was news to me when I found out many tech companies still use slave-master language. GitHub talked about making these changes as early as June, when CEO Nat Friedman tweeted that it was something the company was already working on. Send me an email at megan@techcrunch.com .

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This one seems non-negotiable for many non-production-line workers and offers savings for both the company and employee if properly implemented and supervised. And there are some industries where tools such as stock options are considered mandatory for a company to be competitive. More examples of gaming the system.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Ransomware is a prime example of this phenomenon. According to a study from network security firm PhishMe , ransomware is delivered by 97% of phishing emails. Detection : identify new threats with “detection points that span all the access vectors (email, Web, Internet points of presence, etc.).”.

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Berkonomics

MAY 12, 2022

But it would be impossible to know much about that person from just a photo. Or that you are a cell phone company with a multi–billion record logfile of every call made from every location to every number dialed using your network. That would be like picking a piece of information form a maze. So, let’s dig further.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. Let me give you a real world example from this week. Let me be clear about this. Is this investor on AngelList?

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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

DECEMBER 24, 2020

First, my story as an example. How about your suppliers as partners? How about offering prepaid licenses to your product or a package of prepaid hours, or a discount for prepayment of purchase? How about strategic partnerships? Use creative fundraising instead of equity or debt? By Dave Berkus.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Tell me about the business. What are some good examples of similar sites? Are there specs?

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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!” Strike that. She over-welcomes her new employees. the fortune states.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 1, 2021

We are not always smart about the market or the product. My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments. And it built a billion-dollar market and then some – where the original vision and plan might have restricted the then-small company to a tiny percentage of that.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Tell me about the business. What are some good examples of similar sites? Are there specs?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And how about a buy-sell agreement if one partner wants to sell their interest to a third party unacceptable to the remaining partner(s)? How about non-compete agreements? Here’s an example of what not to do…. A personal story about a partnership gone bad. Non-disparagement clauses?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

How did an email marketing provider turn into a provider of software which mashes up a combination of email marketing, wiki, customer service management, event and meeting management tool, project management software, and much more? What is GreenRope all about? Can you give an example of the functions you are talking about?

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Berkonomics

MAY 6, 2021

It’s a big issue within any company. . But how about those at the office as we return to a more normal workweek – even with split home-office days? But they often did so anyway, and often spending more time and more company money in phone bills in those days than any cost for today’s typical employee distraction.

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