Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. But on the business side, here is my list of useful courses that we wish existed, but as far as I know, still aren’t generally available: Basic Office Politics.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

These are still the driving focus behind most marketing courses, and deserve to be so. Then there’s the compass or cardinal definitions model for marketers : N=needs, W=wants, S=security, and E=education. Email readers, continue here…] D=Decrease costs. This is considered to be the producer-oriented model.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2016

As a leader, you set the goals, establish the strategies and tactics to get there (with help from others of course) and sell the dream to all of your stakeholders. I recently sat in on a roundtable meeting in which the executive of a company stated his goal as “educate the world.”

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Email readers, continue here…] The Lion was delighted with the cockroach’s report and asked him to produce graphs to describe production rates and analyze trends so that he could use them for presentations at board meetings, so the cockroach had to buy a new computer and a laser printer and recruit a fly to manage the IT department.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2016

By now, you’ve probably heard about big data as a service , machine learning, and now deep learning, but differentiating between them isn’t always the easiest thing to do. Google has started a free course meant to teach people about deep learning. The free course is provided by a for-profit online education site, Udacity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2010

I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. But on the business side, here is my list of useful courses that we wish existed, but as far as I know, still aren’t generally available: Basic Office Politics.

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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. Of course, I’ll tell another harrowing story here. How about senior managers no longer at speed? Of course, I had come to the same conclusion, even though at least in the short term, sales growth would suffer.

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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. Don’t be limited by only non-real-time communications, implied with emails, texts, and online forums. These now provide better quality, better paying, and more exciting jobs than big companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. But on the business side, here is my list of useful courses that we wish existed, but as far as I know, still aren’t generally available: Basic Office Politics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. But on the business side, here is my list of useful courses that we wish existed, but as far as I know, still aren’t generally available: Basic Office Politics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2011

I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. But on the business side, here is my list of useful courses that we wish existed, but as far as I know, still aren’t generally available: Basic Office Politics.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Despite the proliferation of entrepreneurial courses within Business Administration programs, business schools are essentially vocational training grounds for consultants and investment bankers. I promise I will never tweet about MBA hating or that killer burrito I just ate. Startups Need Execution, Not Administration. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

I sat standing 1 foot away from somebody who’s been in prison for 15 years of his life and I had 60 seconds to open up to him about something that causes me pain in my life while he stairs into my eyes I found myself going deeper than I would with even friends or family. Similar men had just gotten done telling me about their own childhoods.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

You are faced with decisions about which road to take. You have the power to change the course of my life and if you do I promise I’ll work so hard you’ll never regret it.” You just finished your education so you know the value of investing in yourself and your knowledge. I’m so grateful to be up here addressing you today.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 7, 2013

Kerri set the stage at the outset of her talk, noting, “What I would like to do today is to demonstrate to all of you that you don't need to be a member of the educated elite or possess the intellect of a Mark Zuckerberg to be successful. Over the course of 2004 and 2005, we actually merged Be Free and Commission Junction together. .

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

I recently spoke with Brad about his approach to guerilla marketing and how he instills eclectic marketing tactics in Foundry Group’s portfolio companies. In particular, Brad was impressed that, “Trada…educated people on how SEM works…and they were incredibly inclusive. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. What matters is how effectively you change course after each mishap. I promise I will never Tweet about celebrities, reality TV or that killer burrito I just ate. Fallacy: An entrepreneur’s two most precious assets are time and money. Grant Exclusivity.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

One day I get an email from Ms. Of course she asked me, I’m the CEO of a leading computer services company. Of course she asked me, I’m the CEO of a leading computer services company. In a couple of weeks we held our first seminar educating parents on how to keep their kids safe online.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Email readers continue here.] Once again, there is a need to educate board members that in conflict of interest cases, the corporation comes first. Of course they should not. Second is the duty of loyalty – loyalty to the corporate person, not to the shareholders who elected the board member.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

The presentation is meant to give an unbiased overview of how to get involved in the tech community; what blogs to read, who to follow on Twitter, who the angel investors are, what areas in LA are home to the most startups and what resources there are to further educate yourself.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. “By RightScale came about way fast and before I felt ready. It’s contagious!”.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2011

It can take 18 months from initial concern about a critical employee to getting a replacement up to speed. Perhaps this is a good time to speak about senior managers that are well-entrenched in the organization but are underperformers because the organization has passed their ability or span of control. Email readers continue here.]

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I've watched businesses operate throughout my career, and saw that so many times business users struggle with relatively simple applications, where they can't get them build, can't get them to work, and where they have to kludge together an email system to route things to get things approved. It was a very manual process. How are you funded?

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

How did the new fund come about? Healthcare is a really obvious vertical, where there is data inefficiency and a tremendous amount of opportunity, but there''s also education, human capital and talent. David Waxman.: The two of us are both longtime founders, first, before being investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

Save it to Pocket, bookmark it, email it to yourself or whatever other coping mechanism you have. Of course you should go on your own journey of discovery. I sat down with Kati Morton (who does YouTube videos on mental health) to talk about ADD. Email twice. Misnomers about ADD. Don’t worry.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

TechZulu recently sat down with east coast transplant Olenka Polak to talk about startup life in Los Angeles. ’ OP: Of course we had to do a lot of research to figure out if this was a viable solution. But this feeling sort of dies out when you’re working with the product every day, and talking about your product every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

And of course we had, TheMan. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

This move is indicative of the possibility that the traditional ways of going about making a living through a college education, an entry-level position at a firm, and steady promotion through the ranks is a dead model. Thiel is providing his mentees with capital to make their startups a reality. Moonlighting can pay the bills.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

TechZulu catches up with the three to talk about WESAWIT, startups, and the LA scene. The cool thing is we were not only taught about film and TV, but also about new media. The app was mainly to educate people what was going on in the world. MR: It was all about knocking on doors.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2019

It’s a good bet that you’ve been exposed to articles, courses and lectures about various styles of management, and how each is appropriate for some companies and for some levels of organization and at various times. When should the dictator in you emerge? A consensus-building leader works well in that style until someone yells “fire!”

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Thanks to Russ Krajec, a patent attorney, for the quick improvement in my education, here are some important points to consider when thinking of your patent strategy. And that’s just about free. Yet, we investors often ask about patent protection before the product or idea is even tested in the market. More to learn (of course).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

If you’re building an education startup and you don’t see any logos of education companies on the firm’s website you are likely targeting the wrong firm. As an investor I can tell you that when I meet an entrepreneur who knows very little about our fund or me as an individual it’s a huge turn off. The third-pass is geography.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Surely you’ve been exposed to articles, courses and lectures about various styles of management, and how each is appropriate for some companies and for some levels of organization and at some times. For example, a consensus-building leader works well in that style until someone yells “fire!,”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

It is an LA-based company that was recently acquired by Amazon, which you can read more about in this incredibly well-researched article. Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2014

What we all need is a digital tool that can extract data from business cards, as well as sync it with your cell phone, your email, and the social networks you use. Finally, we want it cheap (of course). Even email is a problem. They consider such data proprietary. business cards digital tools entrepreneur startup'

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

For the next four days if you’re in the tech industry you’re going to hear a non-stop stream of information about SXSW. But … that’s all I have to say about that. Don’t worry about all the folks bragging on Twitter, Instagram or FourSquare about being at the latest event. Choose wisely.

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