Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Do home-based employees work with the same dedication and productivity as those in office cubicles next to each other? Email readers, continue here…] But as you see from the story above, it does take more creative management to make this work. How about the employee unable to self-motivate in a home environment?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. You left the meeting dreaming about money and finally having resources to do all of the things you wanted to do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Most entrepreneurs I meet are reluctant to disclose anything about their idea to investors before getting a signed confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). Yet I can assure you that people who are paranoid, or want to avoid all risks, won’t be happy as entrepreneurs, so it’s all about balancing the risk-reward scale. Build trust first.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2009

Interested in winning a free ticket to the Internet Merchant Association's conference in Las Vegas? The Internet Merchant's Association conference is focused on the e-retail marketplace. Just email us at info@socaltech.com with your name, email, and contact information! worth $599)?

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Put first things first.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

Modern-society is also littered with over-networkers and over-introducers and professional conference attendees. These people are like the friend in college who always tempted you by telling you about the latest party when you were at the library studying. In many instances this help is genuine, well-meaning and productive.

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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. listen to them to iterate our product, and that's how we get buy-in from our customers. One of our big mantras, internally, is to be the fastest responder when you see a customer email us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most entrepreneurs I meet are reluctant to disclose anything about their idea to investors before getting a signed confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). Yet I can assure you that people who are paranoid, or want to avoid all risks, won’t be happy as entrepreneurs, so it’s all about balancing the risk-reward scale. Build trust first.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 18, 2018

And since attorneys are paid to protect, often they will give a litany of warnings about what could go wrong when accepting a contract clause that they have been trained to challenge.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

It reminds me of a line my wife and I often jokingly say to each other after seeing the awesome film “ Notorious ” about the life of Biggie Smalls. After my first Tweet with the Notorious mothafucka quote , I thought about my role as a VC and I Tweeted the following. “I know mothafuckas who know mothafuckas.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Email updates frequently. When they meet Marissa – you want them talking about you more than the others. Make your emails actionable.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

An email subscription is coming! And while the market’s reaction was negative, there were folks who noted that the Model Y’s likeness to the 3 meant it was getting serious about selling vehicles. Email me or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. As I’ve written before, consider this a soft launch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. Like any sale you first need to plan your “prospects” and qualify whether or not they’d be a good fit for your product?—?an

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2023

For introverts like me, it’s not easy to step out of your comfort zone and meet new people, but if you approach the challenge correctly, I have found that it can actually be fun as well as productive. In business networking settings, it’s not very memorable to talk only about business. Try to find common ground outside of business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

“Yeah, but I’m just going to execute this [channel sales deal, international license of my product, new industry, new operating system, biz dev deal] and then it will pretty much run itself.” It’s why I don’t invest in Conference Ho’s. ok, I know our product isn't yet verticalized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Now may be the time to build new credentials is this digital age by taking time for education courses and attending digital conferences. Build a personal marketing plan, as you would for a new product, including regular highlight reports, progress, and results. Imagine your best future with digital credentials. Don’t be too humble.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He stood up, grabbed the mic and gave a heartfelt overview of his experiences in experimenting with new technologies to build relationships with his audience, get feedback on his product quality and to market his music all the way to the top of iTunes. It made me confident about what would work. His email list became his power.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). And there’s conferences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

For introverts like me, it’s not easy to step out of your comfort zone and meet new people, but if you approach the challenge correctly, I have found that it can actually be fun as well as productive. In business networking settings, it’s not very memorable to talk only about business. Try to find common ground outside of business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you haven’t yet heard about Female Founder Office Hours it is an initiative you should be aware of whether you’re male, female or any other gender identify. My grandmother was one of the first woman to earn a math degree from Columbia and never gave a damn about what women are “supposed to do.” 8% of VC partnerships, for example).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. I can’t change who your board members are so let me offer some thoughts on how to make your interactions with your board more productive. Of course it’s not required and many don’t do it. Never be surprised at a board meeting.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

One way to do so is to ensure that when your customers share their experiences with your products and solutions, they do so with the passion and intensity of a soulful kiss. Our goal was to have the conference participants wake up in their suites to a flyer stealthily placed under their doors in the middle of the night.

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Berkonomics

MAY 5, 2016

Skip or stay, but think about your balance in leadership either way. By far the most enjoyable for most of us is visionary leadership – the time we spend thinking ahead, creating new ideas for products or services, focusing on the big picture and how we can change the world with our creation. Another leadership development bit?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

I spoke about the topic on Fox Business News yesterday in a great session with TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon and will post it along with my other VC Videos when Fox puts it on their website. The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.&# Will they? So how to proceed?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We caught up with Jon about the company's entry into Microsoft's Accelerator, and also got his thoughts on how the world is different this time around for his latest CRM startup. 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.

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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. I like that. Sometimes I forget to ask.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2010

Do home-based employees work with the same dedication and productivity as those in office cubicles next to each other? Email readers continue here.] Let’s pause for a word about dress code and formal accountability for the home office worker. That depends upon the management as much as the employee.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 31, 2019

We take a look at what's coming up, including some of the most outlandish inventions that will be dropping at the conference. One of these will be piBo , a Samsung product that is aimed at ‘single person households'. Both LG and Panasonic showed off the tech in 2019, but we're yet to see an actual product available for purchase.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

Yesterday I wrote about the need to “ do fewer things, more often ” in which I described that frenzied world we live in and why the shiny objects and distractions stop us from living up to our true potential. As a board member I’m sometimes a real pain-in-the-ass about this. Opening is easier than closing.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

It can take 18 months from initial concern about a critical employee to getting a replacement up to speed. First, the costs for under-performance are both tangible and intangible, with lost revenues, lost opportunities, lost savings and loss of productivity from low employee morale difficult to estimate.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I recently got an email from a friend who had been approached by a well known VC. He sent me an email asking whether the approach was real and whether he should take it seriously. Here is the email he received (reprinted without names with his permission). No reason not to call him but I wouldn’t get too excited about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. If you sell a product direct to a customer – in person or on the phone – you need to understand what their pain points are and position your product benefits against those pain points.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

I want to talk about a specific type of meeting today — a Board Meeting — but this could easily apply more broadly. No board will know your business better than you do but if managed properly they should be the most informed people about your business than any full-time executive. The bane of many of our existence. This is failure.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Talk about Telesign and what you do? Telesign was the first thing we were working on, but there were a bunch of different little businesses we started all about the same time. I was about 19 at the time. Talk about Telesign now, talk about your growth path? What were you majoring in?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. I’ve written about the “elevator” pitch before. My partner was in product management at Demand Media. With Sam we could have then switched to talking about the Lakers and he would have achieved his objective. Most are squandered. And smiled. Plant the seed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

The problem is that most people in this situation know they are stuck in the position and never try to change or to do anything about it. My boss and my boss’s boss made me all sorts of promises about how quickly I’d be promoted. And from email we added IM, Facebook and LinkedIn where people contact us.

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