Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. Nice sweep!
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 3, 2009
As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). And of course there was the F-bomb count that Cathy Brooks and I were keeping on Dave … by the end of the panel we had counted 8.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. Yammer, Salesforce Chatter. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 12, 2016
So riffing off the famous Andy Grove statement that “only the paranoid survive” and believing that “only the most exceptionally talented startup teams survive” — most get washed out by the constant cycle of change and competition. And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures. Why Invest?
Berkonomics
MARCH 23, 2023
We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users. We take courses on-line. We read increasingly using our digital devices. We compute using our smartphones and tablets.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 22, 2011
In the simplest form, new startups have a product that is INFERIOR to that offered by the competition but at a dramatically lower price with the seller opting for a very thin margin on their product. Of course I could go on and on including businesses like AirBnB, DropBox, Box.net, Yammer and so on. All deflationary.
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