Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Dreaming of a company many times the size, he led the board to approve a complete reversal of course, even stating that the company should ignore the existing market niche completely and redesign the product for the broad Fortune 500 corporate market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Fortunately, despite their lack of basic business experience, the destined-to-be-great entrepreneurs never give up, following Bill Gates after his first failure with Traf-O-Data, and Jeff Bezos after early failure with his online auction site. Startups don’t come with formal training courses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I hope to publish that deck and a full write up in the next 10 days in partnership with Dan Primack at Fortune (if my write up doesn’t suck, I guess ;-)). Of course the concentration of capital in growth firms and the intense competition to fund the best deals leads to some risks.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Make A Difference - Not A Fortune. Mark explains that, “If you set out to make a fortune, you probably won't. If you set out to make a difference in the world, you will and you might make a fortune.”. if I follow a prescribed course, I'm going to get a good picture. Good Fortune Matters. It's a strategy.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

To this end, Jason and his DocStoc team have created a compelling online course entitled, 21 Critical Lessons for Entrepreneurs. If you enjoy Jason’s content and style, you might want to check out his online course. Fortunately, Jason does not require his employees to wear capes, masks or tights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2020

Fortunately, despite their lack of basic business experience, the destined-to-be-great entrepreneurs never give up, following Bill Gates after his first failure with Traf-O-Data, and Jeff Bezos after early failure with his online auction site. Startups don’t come with formal training courses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

Of course, it could be your level of experience, or the quality of your team, but the difference is often more related to the lifecycle stage of the market you are trying to enter. Of course, getting money doesn’t assure success. If you are an ecommerce startup, this may be your path to fame and fortune.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In a year filled with challenging news, we were fortunate (across Archer Venture Capital and Liquid Stock) to have some high quality exits in our portfolio, but moreover to see how our amazing entrepreneurs successfully managed the disruption caused by COVID-19.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Fortunately, basic leadership and entrepreneurial skills can be acquired from experience and training. Of course, skills in decision-making are not enough alone to make a great entrepreneurial leader. In my experience, it’s a lot more complicated than that.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

Of course, neither this original mission statement, nor its current one, actually reflect how Facebook profits as a business — it primarily sells adverts to users. The company mission statement is, of course, a way to seize attention externally, and focus team members on the end destination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Their track record is dire, with only twelve percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 from fifty years ago still even in business today. Of course, someone with more operating experience may be brought in once the new venture has been successfully launched. Choose a trusted team lead with executive sponsors.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 29, 2013

During the course of his talk, Brian mentioned that, "Startups are like pouring a bucket of water down a hill. In addition, the hill''s slope will also affect the water''s course. Path Of Least Resistance - Water effortlessly tumbles down a hillside, fluidly modifying its course, based on obstructions in its path.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. There’s a reason that many people say that the fortune is in the follow up. When someone introduces me to an “idea person,” I automatically jump to the down-side conclusion that this person doesn’t do follow-up.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

It’s good advice; the theory being that entrepreneurs can discover the flaws in their business models sooner, make course corrections and move in a more favorable direction. You just had to be lucky, write reasonably good code and land in an industry with some legs, and of course, treat the customer well. . – Dave.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 10, 2019

How to respond to “change the course” suggestions. Make your case for staying the course. Let’s go after the Fortune 50.” “But that’s walking away from an industry where we are #2, growing nicely and already becoming profitable,” the CEO responded. After several months on the board, he spoke up. “I Don’t worry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2022

Of course, the best solution would be a new wave of so-called whole-brain thinkers, but this term is usually reserved for Einstein and Picasso, and no entrepreneurs that I can name. Even right- brain dominant adults are hard to find, according to many expert views.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2023

To assess where you are, and to unlock your full potential, there are many courses available, as well as seminars and gurus, but a good place to start is a book on the subject, like the classic one from John Mattone, “ Intelligent Leadership.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2021

Life’s prolonged course offers everyone the opportunity to chart new horizons. After many stories of leaders in all these categories, he offers some good tips on how to get counted in the category you prefer: Know thyself. What matters most to you? Helping others? Listen to your heart. Be open and responsive to the inputs of others.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 10, 2019

How to respond to “change the course” suggestions. Make your case for staying the course. Let’s go after the Fortune 50.” “But that’s walking away from an industry where we are #2, growing nicely and already becoming profitable,” the CEO responded. After several months on the board, he spoke up. “I Don’t worry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2020

To assess where you are, and to unlock your full potential, there are many courses available, as well as seminars and gurus, but a good place to start is a book on the subject, like the classic one from John Mattone, “ Intelligent Leadership.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to a private sitting with the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, along with 18 other entrepreneurs. Of course the naysayers are out again. I, of course, am betting on the former and am not 1% swayed by the doubters. Of course not. Of course we brought in outside experts.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

The firm, which underwent a significant restructuring over the last two years, went on an investment tear over the course of 2019 as new partners went out to build up a new portfolio for the firm — almost of a whole cloth. Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its $600M 18th fund.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

So when do we know which course to take? Everyone, including those connected with the newly acquired dominant player, wondered what changes would affect their company and their personal lives and fortunes. At least that is the conventional wisdom. Quietly abandon a niche? Refuse to engage? Or charge in full speed?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2022

Thus, if you are like me, with no real background or experience in public speaking, I encourage you to start early with some traditional training, like a Dale Carnegie course, or read a good book on the subject, like the classic one by successful businesswoman and speaker Jan Yager, Ph.D., “ The Fast Track Guide to Speaking in Public.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2016

And of course fudging never produces world-class results, so many companies suffer from mediocrity. And while leaders set direction, of course it is teams that deliver results. On business decisions they want to hedge their bets so they do a little bit of everything but nothing extremely well. It is about being willing to be wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

And when I heard them speak of how they organize as angels (pools of capital – up to $2m per deal) and accelerators (direct access to large Fortune 100 companies) I must admit it sounded as sophisticated as what we’re trying to achieve in LA. ” OF COURSE! Of course they don’t. In that sense it felt very LA.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Maseeh also said the prize will come associated with a new course at the USC Viterbi school, which will help engineers learn about business plans and creating viable businesses from their ideas. Maseeh made his fortune at Intellisense, a developer of micro-electro mechanical devices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2021

Of course, delivering messages is not just saying the right thing, but also listening, writing, body language, and practicing what you preach. Fortunately these are skills you can learn and practice. The acid test is the feedback you are getting, or not getting.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. Fortune Brainstorm. Fortune Brainstorm. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!,

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). and Microsoft had become.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2010

Several years ago, we were hired by one of the largest companies in the industry (yet another Fortune 500) to perform a top-to-bottom audit of their processes across 27 facilities, and recommend measures to increase efficiency, increase income and of course, decrease costs while also increasing the quality of service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Fortunately, basic leadership and entrepreneurial skills can be acquired from experience and training. Of course, skills in decision-making are not enough alone to make a great entrepreneurial leader. In my experience, it’s a lot more complicated than that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Of course, drivers have to be backed up by some realities, like necessary resources, adequate skills, relentless determination, and a market of people interested in supporting your dream. I’m certain he had no idea of the personal fortune that could accrue, but was driven by a need to prove through applications the value to the rest of us.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Good fortunes. But good fortune was just around the corner, thanks to the lucky number 13! We consider ourselves very fortunate that our project has received the attention that it has from the web framework community. Oh, and of course we’re running it on Linux. New hardware and cloud environments.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Dreaming of a company many times the size, he led the board to approve a complete reversal of course, even stating that the company should ignore the existing market niche completely and redesign the product for the broad Fortune 500 corporate market.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In the course of my recent interview with Guy Kawasaki , author and former Apple Evangelist, Guy describes Steve Jobs as: “… the world’s greatest CEO, ever. In the summer of 1985, he was in Jobs’ office when a photographer for Fortune magazine arrived to shoot Steve for an upcoming cover.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

This is no different than a public company where of course most investors are not given detailed financial and performance information and when they are it is quarterly and after the fact. I was just super fortunate that since it listed our name in the email solicitation that an investor reached out to me to ask us about it.

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