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Three questions to answer about your COVID response

Berkonomics

Act boldly to address painful layoffs, reductions in salaries, cuts in trade shows already contracted (even if cancelled or reset to the fall months.) Do you still need marketing costs when there is no-one out there buying new product? Rethink the value of these to your bottom line even after you’re open for business again.

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Qualstar Continues To Look At Strategic Options

socalTECH

The company says it has been seeing competition in the data storage industry which has "create pressure" on maintaining market share, saying that "market headwinds" have been challenging the company. Qualstar had a major layoff in March of 2016, along with other cost cutting moves, which looked to have most stemmed its quarterly losses.

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Protect your company secrets!

Berkonomics

Variations on the theme… [Email readers, continue here…] You can expect to have the same attitude if a past employee resurfaces after a layoff, resignation or after being fired, with a plan for a competitive business – or as an employee of a competitor.

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How to protect your company lists and trade secrets

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] You can expect to have the same attitude if a past employee resurfaces after a layoff, resignation or after being fired, with a plan for a competitive business – or as an employee of a competitor.

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High Functioning vs. Low Functioning Startup Boards

Both Sides of the Table

Here are some observations I have from this exposure: If a company moves from strength-to-strength with predictable outcomes, easy financings, low staff turn-over, limited competitive threats then the composition of the board probably doesn’t matter as much. The founders of a company are fighting. Can we help them get along?

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

But if you’re in a competitive space where you want to get a little more engineering done before the world is ready to start researching you then you may choose to delay. People scoop company layoffs, mergers, key people leaving a company or being fired and the like. But that’s not the world we live in today.

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Viddy Chops Staff

socalTECH

Viddy has been undergoing some turmoil, as the firm has seen an increasing amount of competition from others looking to be the Instagram of video; the firm also suffered from an over-hyped launch last year. According to Viddy, in a statement, the move came to "streamline costs" and now gives it the "right team" to execute on moving forward.

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