Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

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. Strategic thinking: Board members who ask: “What is the competitive landscape?” Generative. This is not easy.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Prepare for your annual meetings well. This could include the need for audited financials, monthly financial and narrative reporting and more. But don’t worry. Few investors will show up that day. But – make it easy for them by creating a video or phone link to the meeting.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Keeping up with the competition: You’re a market leader in a fast-growing field. But at a minimum, any good review should include: Straightforward Analysis : A straightforward report that grades aspects of your technology, processes, and team. If the answer isn’t an unqualified yes, then email us to discuss a technical review.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

According to the founders, Contur is a virtual assistant that sorts and organizes your emails automatically. The founders add that Contur takes all of your emails, groups the related ones together so that you can see your emails in context. You may get emails related to our apartments at random intervals in your inbox.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 27, 2019

Especially in your growing company, you are drawn into daily process issues by all of your direct reports, often responding to questions and problems, leaving little time for strategic thought. We know that an executive’s job is not easy. Nor is there much time in a typical day for outreach of any kind. That’s bad behavior! Find the pain.

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Customer Custom Course Email 120

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Email us at editor@socaltech.com and tell us why we should listen to your own quick pitch. Shawn Peterson: Underbuilt is a simplified building codes report. Why would anyone need a building report like this? Shawn Peterson: Anyone that owns a home, and wants to remodel it or do some home shopping is in need of this report.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2019

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. This one comes straight from football. But you know that of course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Tracking and performance reporting. Advertising is all about getting the most results for the least cost.

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PPC SEO Paid Search Search Engine Optimization 154

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo, is planning some direct competition to Michael Arrington's technology blog empire, TechCrunch , according to a report today from the Guardian. According to the report, Calacanis is developing a property called Launch , which will focus on deep analysis of companies.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] These could include the need for audited financials, monthly financial and narrative reporting and more. 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

APRIL 8, 2021

From its start in 2015, the number of registered users has “suddenly” climbed from 45 million in 2017 to a reported 300 million by the end of 2020. That compares with a reported 330 million for Twitter which had a nine-year head start and so much more free press from famous users over the years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side. Both are required to stay competitive. Much has been written about the trends on the customer side, but I find less specific guidance on the changes which are impacting the way we interact with peers at work.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

For larger or later stage companies, it could be to increase market share through acquisitions with the attendant elimination of competition or increase in a company’s reach. Email readers, continue here…] I prefer a financial goal, such as “achieve $20 million in revenue within five years.”

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. This one comes straight from football. How do you create and update it?

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Coach Metrics Training Guide 192

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Whatever the problem, the person or board to whom you report does not want to hear about it after it has become a threat to the enterprise. Keep the information to yourself? Well, both the CEO and CFO were soon gone, and the VCs reluctantly passed the hat well before the budgeted cash-out date.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Theodore Schleifer at Recode reported a rare deep dive into the internal intrigue at a prominent VC firm, in this case Mithril Capital. When should you start a company? What company should you start? When should a VC invest?

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

They will be more willing to pay a royalty fee if your product gets them to market earlier or is protected by patent to create a barrier to their competition. Email readers, continue here…] Arthur: This is a matter between the owner of your IP (you) and the would-be user of your IP.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked, Cloud-based enterprise platform for deal management and investor reporting, Wednesday announced a new suite of enterprise features in a move to take transactions mobile. The new features launched include business tools for reporting, file management, discussions and first-of-its-kind functionality for managing deals on an iPad.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

They will be more willing to pay a royalty fee if your product gets them to market earlier or is protected by patent to create a barrier to their competition. Email readers, continue here…] Arthur: This is a matter between the owner of your IP (you) and the would-be user of your IP.

IP 120

IP Product Equity Tool 120

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Whatever the problem, the person or board to whom you report does not want to hear about it after it has become a threat to the enterprise. Email readers, c ontinue here.] An alert does not have to be too detailed or too long. Bad things happen to good people.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2010

Together we would work out solutions in the form of new functions, new controls, new reports, and new safeguards. Email readers continue here.] This is not to bend this insight into a claim that a company should wait to develop new, groundbreaking products and services until a customer asks for them.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Email readers, continue here…] The Berkus Method assigns a number, a financial valuation, to each of four major elements of risk faced by all young companies – after crediting the entrepreneur some basic value for the quality and potential of the idea itself. Today, for me, that hurdle number is $20 million.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Last week Wednesday Groupon world’s largest daily deal company launched its own payment system dubbed Groupon Payments , adding competition to the field Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Square were already competing for market share. percent per swipe to beat the competition. Simplest and Lowest Cost Option.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

Is Amazon's marketplace the largest competition for what you're doing? Neel Grover: Amazon is definitely the largest competition we have here. They can build a storefront, brand it so the customers know who they are, use tools to email our customers directly, without us getting involved. There is more reporting, for sure.

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Sites Commerce Pricing Product 210

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). Tracking and performance reporting.

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Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends. Both are required to stay competitive. Bring your own device to work (BYOD). Computers are no longer stand-alone dedicated devices, but are built into personal devices, like phones and tablets.

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Entrepreneur Yammer Case Study Study 102

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

You get an email, tap on a link, a notification pops up, and the app installs on your phone. The way we go about that is different than the competition. We were tracking music across the country, and reporting on what was going on in a city and providing recommendation and lists of events. The big one is crash reporting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side. Both are required to stay competitive. Much has been written about the trends on the customer side, but I find less specific guidance on the changes which are impacting the way we interact with peers at work.

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Startup Case Study Platform Yahoo 61

InfoChachkie

JULY 2, 2012

The best way to maximize the performance of a Temperamental Superstar is to make them a sole contributor, with no direct reports. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The steady drip of hacked Hillary Clinton-related emails showed her campaign team questioning then-candidate FDA commissioner Robert Califf’s ties to the pharma industry. The hikes were first reported earlier this month by Adam Feuerstein of The Street. Wait til you get a load of this week’s roundup. TOP STORIES.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 22, 2017

Tech is a very competitive, macho environment in which anxiety is rarely understood and is usually perceived as a weakness. As a result, people with anxiety find it difficult to negotiate competitive compensation and are reluctant to report workplace maleficence, harassment and discrimination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends. Both are required to stay competitive. Bring your own device to work (BYOD). Computers are no longer stand-alone dedicated devices, but are built into personal devices, like phones and tablets.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Yammer 104

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Tracking and performance reporting. For most, it sounds like a magical process or a scam, with the experts spewing so many acronyms.

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SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Ed Braswell, CEO, edo says this is necessary as, “Payments and advertising are colliding; to stay competitive firms are searching for solutions to drive customer acquisition, loyalty and return on marketing investment.”. It reports to have extended more than 200 million card-linked offers to consumers nationwide in the last three months.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Through CJ’s website, Publishers/Affiliates bring hits to Advertisers’ websites by using Google Adwords, blogs, email, Twitter, Facebook and other means. We all get emails daily offering various products and we do buy them from time to time, me included. Some affiliates will sell anything to make a buck.

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Santa Barbara PPC Blogging Google 106

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. How much competition is there in this space with people like Oracle, SAP, etc?

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