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Take this test to predict your success:

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Have you created high barriers to entry? Do you have a world-class management team? Note: All images created for this blog by Dave using AI prompts with Microsoft Designer (DALL-E). This is a basic test for investors, separating your business from those with smaller visions.

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Entrepreneurs: Employment law is not on your side!

Berkonomics

Almost all laws dealing with employment are designed to protect the employee, not the company. Email readers, continue here…] Notice that every poster that is required to be displayed in a company public area (usually the lunch room) is posted for the benefit of the employee to inform him or her of rights granted by law.

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With Greathouse Comes Great Responsibility

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I thought this post might be of interest to some of my readers, as it offers a glimpse into my approach to teaching entrepreneurship. . Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO.

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Interview with Sam Teller, LaunchpadLA

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For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? We got over 400 applications for the ten slots we had open in this class, and we picked ten amazing companies. So far, eight of the ten companies in our current class have raised outside funding, and we're really happy with how it's gone so far. So when is the next class?

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Leaping off the cliff: Making your business virtual

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] We brainstormed with a consultant and each other. One idea kept rising to the top of our list: abandoning our Class A office space which had been designed and decorated with great love. It was much more than an office.

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The most important person on the startup team

Berkonomics

This is where you find the superb Rails coder, and the world-class information architect, and the consummate sales guy, and the persuasive business development person, and the brilliant CFO. Each of the functions is crucial, and each is required to bring the good idea to fruition.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. For us, the audience was perfect.

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