Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We’ve worried together about the moral obligation implicit in taking such investments from people so close, even with their promise never to expect a return. There is an exemption from the requirements that these investors be accredited with net worth or income minimums to qualify legally to invest in your company. Accelerators.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 1, 2019

Employee engagement and education. One of the clearest opportunities, especially for tech companies moving into areas with low levels of science, tech, engineering and math levels (STEM), is in education where it’s badly lacking in public schools. A brand’s strongest ambassadors are the people who work for it.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Venture and angel investing has long been considered a man''s world--with domination of the industry, executives, financiers, and others by men, with only a few exceptions. The Pipeline Fellowship--founded by Natalia Oberti Noguera--says it has been running angel investing bootcamps for women, looking to active more female angel investors.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

The proposal sets out four big initiatives, including zero-emissions vehicle manufacturing, assembly and adoption; zero-emissions infrastructure investments; commitments to public transit investments; workforce development; and job training. billion set aside for workforce retraining and education.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Throughout a career lifetime, just think of the return on that investment. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. How many hours a day does the average professional and executive today spend hunched over a computer keyboard “hunting and pecking”?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Investing in affordable education and training at all levels of society would prepare people for meaningful work, and provide compensation that could help reduce social inequities and divisiveness. We need to value and invest in multiple paths to opportunity and employment. Need more convincing?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 6, 2011

A now-wired world coupled with ubiquitous mobility opens e-learning to innovation in ways unavailable to its PC software and corporate training origins. Mobile apps open the door to as-needed content, pacing and augmented reality as part of training. All of this is going to have major impact on education and knowledge work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2021

Here are a few facts from the National Council on Economic Education emphasizing the need for more business training, starting much earlier: More than 1 in 6 students in the USA do not have a baseline level of financial literacy. Able to invest money wisely. Nearly 1/4 of millennials spend more than they earn.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

Nichols is a former Kauffman Fellow and investment director at Intel Capital, and tells us how his fund--which he co-founded with Atom Factory's Troy Carter--is looking to find companies solving large problems outside of the typical Silicon Valley bubble. Talk about Cross Culture, what your investment areas are?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Management guides people in what needs to be done, by creating sustainable and repeatable systems, with education and guidance to make sure all efforts are productive. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

Investment Partner Megan Quinn weighed in publicly. So if you need any proof that Perkins has no connection to his former firm if an investment partner hasn’t even met him he clearly doesn’t cast a long shadow over the firm. We need to provide better education for the masses. People don’t know him.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

Since the beginning, we've invested in a relationship management function within our organization, and we've always invested first in quality support. The second, was investing in relationship management and support. What has been the biggest lesson you've learned in retaining and keeping customers? His name is Quinton Myers.

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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. Startups Need Execution, Not Administration. Five reasons many MBAs struggle at startups are as follows: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. If you’re an angel you invest your own money and you have nobody to answer to except your spouse. If you invest it in startups you’re a VC professional money manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

In order to combat the losses of traditional jobs we invested in education and training and public infrastructure that enabled the growth of the middle class. If we don’t lead in commerce and trade by expanding products, investing abroad & at home and lowering the costs of goods — somebody else will. And Russia.

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Education Resource Class Course 150

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Or maybe it’s healthier in the long run when the government imposes more progressive taxation and puts the funds into education, social programs, and R&D. Startups and technology giants alike depend on legions of highly educated foreigners working in the U.S. Education and Workforce Development. Immigration.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

One example of this could be education. Sales and negotiation training have become common place in corporate training regimens to help marketers and strategists understand how to engage customers and make them come back. What has changed is how a company goes about investing in their marketing strategies. junk mail?.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. There are large sums of money to be invested and if investors can get comfortable with “downside protections” they’ll still write checks.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

While cybersecurity training seems to be experiencing a groundswell moment, (e.g., BT Security recently partnered with ISC(2) to train security staff), solving this problem will take years, and the skills challenge will likely get worse before it gets better. Invest more in training and optimizing the usage of existing staff.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. If you can imagine, you can have your entire educational life online. Zareh Baghdasarian: My training is as an engineer.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We wanted to be able to invest in our software and our learning tools. Out of 41 companies who submitted their software for approval, only three were accepted--us, McGraw Hill, and Peoples Education. We used that cash to invest as intelligently as we could, and scale the business so we could enter into other businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

Training and coaching. But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. They benchmark their ideas against competition, use metrics to track acceptance, sales growth, and return on investment. Idea management. Innovation is not a one-time thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2013

When computers moved from “green screens” to Windows we – the educated, young, technophiles – easily grasped the concept. You’re not a master of what’s on the menu and you don’t want to invest the time to parse through all of its complexities. I learned the hard way. My philosophy is simply.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Men have dominated the world of investment. There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. Natalia Oberti Noguera is on a mission to help change the demographic of investment with her Pipeline Fellowship. TechZulu speaks with Natalia about Pipeline Foundation and her goals to change the face of business and investment.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created by the leadership team from Code Fever to accelerate and support the innovation of black communities through training, networks and funding. “ The Case Foundation invests in people and ideas that can change the world. The Case Foundation (Washington, DC). Pipeline Angels (National Network).

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. We got first place in that competition, and they followed up with a $2M investment in the form of a convertible note. It's the largest investment the TCA has had in terms of a first round in their history.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

It performs "due diligence" before it makes "investments" and it measures results as a "return on its investment.". Sound Organization: financially healthy and operationally viable, with strong funder relationships, well-trained staff and reliable systems and infrastructure. First, we think and act like investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

Education & Tech. Education and Technology were also hot topics at the conference. According to Adam Nordin, Global Head of Education Services and Technology of Barclays Capital, “More and investments are being raised for education technology, it has now finally become mainstream.” Disruptors and Innovators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2013

Here are a few facts from the National Council on Economic Education emphasizing the need for more business training, starting much earlier: Only 34% of teens can balance a checkbook. Able to invest money wisely. The average teen thinks they will earn $145,000 per year.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Jen Consalvo and I expanded the national footprint of events, hosted conferences and festivals, created monthly leadership summits, hosted an interactive educational speaker series, wrote a book, and launched a daily news and resource platform with a new brand – Tech.Co. I’ve also shared a few Tech Cocktail and Tech.Co

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In the move to online commerce, one of the latest areas of interest by online retailers has been the use of online video, to showcase products and provide training and instruction. Our application is designed to leverage their investment in video, and deliver these guides. We do that for international customers as well. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. We got first place in that competition, and they followed up with a $2M investment in the form of a convertible note. It's the largest investment the TCA has had in terms of a first round in their history.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s the story of what’s broken with the education system in the US. They are often raised by single moms, grandparents or under-educated immigrant parents who want the same thing for their children that we do for our own. Yesterday I went to see the film Waiting for Superman. Wasn’t that the American promise?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Most young people who are completing their educational degree today think they will have learned all they need for their career ahead. You need a plan on how to train yourself, or be mentored, for each step along the way. Make the investment. The most important thing you can learn in college today is how to learn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Management guides people in what needs to be done, by creating sustainable and repeatable systems, with education and guidance to make sure all efforts are productive. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. The program itself is incredibly daunting initially, but it was really valuable for us, especially as an educational experience.

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