Berkonomics

JULY 27, 2017

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. Together we would work out solutions in the form of new functions, new controls, new reports, and new safeguards.

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MAY 9, 2018

I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. But I have to catch a flight to New York for a two-day computer vision conference and 2 board meetings, 2 board dinners and a catch up with my LPs to tell them how our fund is going. But it’s only Tuesday.

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APRIL 12, 2017

As executives we’re all seemingly accessible at any moment to anybody via email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Text. We’re expected to be at conferences, events, sales meetings and be publicly visible. It’s why sometimes I respond to emails in 5 minutes at other times I go dark for a week at a time.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

This year, we're again sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. One of our big mantras, internally, is to be the fastest responder when you see a customer email us. What has been the biggest lesson you've learned in retaining and keeping customers?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 18, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] I was chairman of a company that had been offered an investment by a Fortune 500 company offering to make a strategic investment in our business, which would be capable of driving new demand to the large company through a series of new web services creating a greater need for the large company’s products.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Flinja , the startup developing an online marketplace for freelance college students and alumni, has launched to the wider world, after graduating from the StartEngine startup accelerator in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 4, 2016

Modern-society is also littered with over-networkers and over-introducers and professional conference attendees. Or an angel investor starts emailing the CEO of a company with all the people they want him or her to meet. Focus is almost always the right answer. It’s human nature to try and be helpful to others.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My trip was scheduled around the annual Web Summit and the f.ounders conference, both of which have become the hottest must-attend event in Europe and rivaling any great conference in the US. He began messaging and emailing me to try and get me to come out to the event, which he was now turning into a conference called Web Summit.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 8, 2010

Twiistup just announced a new "Ultimate Executive Conference" to be held at a 5-Diamond resort in Dana Point, CA. Here is the email from Twiistup Producer Francisco Dao : "We're excited to announce a very special event called The Retreat. The Retreat is an exclusive executive level "conference." What is the Retreat?

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Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] During those times, VCs had lots of conferences where thought leaders gathered to discuss term sheets, deal structures and fund strategies. Angel investing is rapidly evolving to the same state of development, as a result of networking, industry associations, and deal sharing between angel groups.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 7, 2015

For two plus decades, Steve has been a pillar of the LA startup community leading innovations in Internet, mobile, social media, app development, eCommerce, and now, digital currency technologies. In the early 90’s, Steve helped DIRECTV launch the first commercial satellite TV service in the US and Latin American.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Email updates frequently.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Recently a CEO friend told me her story of a dinner including her director of business development and an executive of a major company, a candidate for a large sale. He saw me drag my leg into the conference room, made no comment, but asked if I would like a tour of the hotel. “Of And the stories couldn’t be more different.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

According to the report, Calacanis is developing a property called Launch , which will focus on deep analysis of companies. In an email to subscribers of his personal mailing list earlier this week, Calacanis said the event will be held in San Francisco on February 23rd and 24th.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Having been through the experience as an entrepreneur twice myself I have developed a list of what I think it takes. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. Next on the checklist.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

An email subscription is coming! This week we’ll focus on the city of Austin, gain insight into Uber’s spending habits, do a little scooter number crunching, the Tesla Model Y, and the so-called “race” — an overused and inaccurate term — to develop autonomous vehicles. What else are we hearing? Deal of the week.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. Let’s say your a junior developer, marketer, product manager, biz dev person at a startup or well-established technology company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2010

Fred Wilson once wrote about the topic of how to introduce two people who don’t know each other via email. He called it the “ double opt-in introduction. &# He talks about the stuggles of email introductions when you’re dealing at scale. This is mostly when it comes in on a “bad email day&# (e.g.

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Berkonomics

MAY 5, 2016

Another leadership development bit? Many times it is a customer, an employee, or an industry conference that sparks the idea that drives you to create and express your vision of the future for your company or product line. But if you have no time or are impatient, here are the three levels: visionary, strategic and tactical.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Thus, I was inspired when I heard about the impact collaboration-in-the-cloud innovator Central Desktop made at the April 2012 San Francisco ad:tech conference.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He has it on stage, too, at conferences. Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. He doesn’t email you. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems. My pal Dave has problems.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

This fest will include panels, workshops, cocktails and keynotes for startups, content creators, developers, social media marketers, designers, entrepreneurs, and more. Design/Dev Hub (Launchpad LA) : Design + developers, UI, UX panels. Email HERE with SBF as subject. Email HERE with SBF as subject. GET INVOLVED!

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Email is efficient. I email often. I always follow important emails with a call. You CANNOT do this on email. Of course in-person is best for true relationship development but that’s not always practical. A very common experience … One person emails some thoughts. I’m not. Well, I am.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Every conference is different. This was my second TCDisrupt conference, however my first attending as press. This was my second TCDisrupt conference, however my first attending as press. I received dozens of long emails each day with press releases, pitches, news and information. Send a very brief follow up email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

Respect and develop a positive working relationship with his co-workers. Don’t email him unless you have to. Most startup execs are barraged with hundreds of emails and they spend hours trying to reach the elusive Zero Inbox nirvana. Emailing – even when well intentioned – just adds to this to-do list.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

Always developing. Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open. When a new email comes in you see the little pop-up in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen and like Pavlov’s dog you feel an adrenaline rush and need to read that email.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

Every extra set of features that you added that served one narrow use case end up being features you need to support in future releases adding complexity to future development, usability testing, regression testing, etc. It’s why I don’t invest in Conference Ho’s. My advice? The best teams are hyper focused.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

It didn't take more than a few weeks and suddenly there were three other projects developing alternative technologies for MySQL. Marten noted that a year after Oracle acquired InnoDB, MySQL made an unexpected announcement at their annual Users Conference. That was such a powerful message; it went all over the world. Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Your Software Development Partner. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblog.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA. 50% Off Conference Passes for. Email us at info@socaltech.com. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). on April 24, 2009.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. We soon had Steve Ballmer doing his monkey dance at our conferences every year. They used Gmail and Gsuite for email and calendar. Explain that?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Early in the rapid growth phase of my computer software company, I hired an excellent, IBM-trained vice president of sales to further growth and begin our international expansion. I asked for a few minutes to confer with my associate, the industrial psychologist.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

You probably follow some high-profile entrepreneurs on Instagram and Twitter and see conference pictures of them in Davos, Mexico, Monaco or wherever. There is a difference between a Conference Ho and a successful entrepreneur. Develop a thick skin for it. Investor emails. Hell, I send those emails. Not fun, hey?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

There are a lot of users, with lots of different email and instant messaging accounts, who are finding that there are too many ways to communicate with their friends and associates. People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Authenticity - I asked Chamillionaire why he thinks he connects so much with people at tech conferences. In his early career he realized the importance of email lists. He would do anything he could to capture people’s email addresses because he knew that they served as a valuable tool for future marketing purposes.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 17, 2016

He is certain that a mother will not focus on her career, missing work to care for her sick child or to attend a parent–teacher conference. Email readers, continue here…] John asked the same questions, but for very different reasons. He believes they will work harder, for longer hours, and for less money.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Email us at info@socaltech.com. Your Software Development Partner. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblo g.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA on. 50% Off Conference Passes for. Interesting in reaching Southern California's high tech industry? Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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