Berkonomics

MARCH 9, 2017

We have years of real data to call upon: data that impacts both investors and entrepreneurs. Harvard University recently published a study that three of every four venture-backed firms fail. Although these are not parallel studies or similar statistics, most seem to refute Fortune’s claim that 90% of all startups fail.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Greathouse : DataPop & Kenshoo recently released a study that highlights the potential opportunities on sites like Pinterest and Polyvore. <Note: I am an investor in DataPop via Rincon Venture Partners > Wilson: "I believe the underlying issue is still how to monetize social channels. Image: Wikipedia. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2015

One of my top former students, Fredi Fernandez , recently sent me a compelling email. After studying at UC Santa Barbara''s entrepreneurial program , he returned to Spain, excited to start a venture and make a positive impact on his homeland. Fredi''s email is worth reading, as it reinforces how lucky American entrepreneurs truly are.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 5, 2021

The entrepreneur often expects that person to keep fellow investors informed. Email readers, continue here…] Several academics have followed multiple rounds of investment in a significant group of early-stage companies. Less than a quarter of companies receiving early-stage investment voluntarily fulfill this promise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2015

If you define your self-worth as an entrepreneur by how busy you are, it’s time to find another lifestyle. For survival, entrepreneurs need to be all about accomplishing results that matter for themselves, their team, and their customers. We all know people who are extraordinarily busy, but never seem to accomplish anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Studies of software teams, for example, show differences as great as ten to one in productivity between working team members. Unproductive procrastination is wasting time and effort, pretending to be busy, organizing your desk, checking email, surfing the internet, or taking another break. Don’t be a perfectionist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2021

If you define your self-worth as an entrepreneur by how busy you are, it’s time to find another lifestyle. For survival, entrepreneurs need to be all about accomplishing results that matter for themselves, their team, and their customers. We all know people who are extraordinarily busy, but never seem to accomplish anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. An increasing number of startups are adopting a BYOD policy, realizing that individuals have their own preferences in the way they access data, collect emails or ‘chat’ to colleagues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. An increasing number of startups are adopting a BYOD policy, realizing that individuals have their own preferences in the way they access data, collect emails or ‘chat’ to colleagues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Studies of software teams, for example, show differences as great as ten to one in productivity between working team members. Unproductive procrastination is wasting time and effort, pretending to be busy, organizing your desk, checking email, surfing the internet, or taking another break. Don’t be a perfectionist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days? Michael Hyatt entrepreneur startup platform business' Their startups will get noticed.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

A few minutes away from downtown Atlanta, Collab Studio ATL describes itself as “a tech-based one-stop shop for content creators, HBCU students and young entrepreneurs to achieve their business goals.” “I feel like the studio has the potential to be a great place for creators like me to thrive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

On the top of my list is a focus on minimizing multitasking, a result of continuous smartphone and email alerts, as well as an instant gratification mentality. Here is my prioritized list of work management strategies I recommend to all business professionals and entrepreneurs: Avoid reliance on multi-tasking to keep up with requests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2016

If you define your self-worth as an entrepreneur by how busy you are, it’s time to find another lifestyle. For survival, entrepreneurs need to be all about accomplishing results that matter for themselves, their team, and their customers. We all know people who are extraordinarily busy, but never seem to accomplish anything.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Program Overview: This interactive workshop educates and empowers angel investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in access to capital on a variety of ways to value pre-revenue companies. Attendees also put these methods to work with interactive case studies. Email linda@techcoastangels.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

An older but still relevant study, published by CB Insights, Venture Capital Human Capital Report , summarizes a variety of characteristics for private early-stage Internet ventures funded in the US. entrepreneur funding venture capital' The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

Do case studies and gather customer testimonials, as well as build relationships that lead to advocacy, loyalty, and word-of-mouth support. Cold calls to strangers and email blasts are not so productive. Go directly to customers to set priorities, and get a feel for emotional as well as factual realities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

If you’ve got the skills to be a strong entrepreneur then it shouldn’t be too difficult to find people who know a partner at a VC firm and if you can build relationship with them you can get introduced. Most entrepreneurs (and VCs raising from LPs) think this means progress. Entrepreneur : “Sure. Some people find this elitist?—?I

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InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

According to Tige Young, Founder and CEO of Tui Tai Expeditions , entrepreneurs should de-emphasize ROI and focus on a more accurate measure of wealth, Return On Life. Tige''s story of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who creates a renowned business in Fiji is pretty epic on its face. spending time together in an amazing place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. An increasing number of startups are adopting a BYOD policy, realizing that individuals have their own preferences in the way they access data, collect emails or ‘chat’ to colleagues.

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Berkonomics

JULY 3, 2019

Email users, continue here…] One of the many important tactics in negotiation is the strategic use of the words, “Help me,” when attempting to understand the position of an adversary. I am a student studying your industry for a term report. Here’s a puzzle where the answer come first. Use in negotiations. Use in fact-finding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

Per a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 17-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 11.5 As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

“A study by Microsoft showed just how lethal interruptions are to productivity. That means most of us are getting derailed from our work four times each hour, maybe more if you work in a high email traffic office.&#. In the comments section Bill DAllesandro offered some insight that he had seen from Microsoft on "interruptions”.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Finding potential customers continues to be a huge challenge not only for established marketing and sales teams but also for startup executives and solo entrepreneurs. A study in 2013 showed that 61 percent of marketers found it hard to generate high-quality leads. Sign up and start using this solution’s simple search interface.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Every entrepreneur and business leader I know realizes that it takes a dedicated team to build and run a successful business, and nurturing that team is one of your most important priorities. Other studies have shown a return of up to 400 percent for this approach. Spiritual connections. Environmental safety.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Academia’s arbitrary, bureaucratic structure, combined with its predominant focus on theoretical issues, causes many entrepreneurs to depart college early. Entrepreneurs are misfits. Entrepreneurs are often societal rejects.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

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. I try to steer entrepreneurs away from over-introducers and I often find myself wanting to be careful about them becoming an investor in companies I back. It starts seemingly innocent enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. An increasing number of startups are adopting a BYOD policy, realizing that individuals have their own preferences in the way they access data, collect emails or ‘chat’ to colleagues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. Studies have shown that consumers gauge credibility in large part based on the appeal of the overall visual design, including layout, typography, font size, color schemes, no broken links, and correct language usage.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. Remember, I was an entrepreneur for 10 years before a VC). Most entrepreneurs don’t put enough effort into these phases.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 29, 2015

The entrepreneur often expects that person to keep fellow investors informed. Email readers, continue here…] Many times, companies need another round of investment, and the first people approached are the same ones that invested the first time. And sometimes the board member does perform the service.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But audience size and consumption is massive and growing plus; Study Innovator’s Dilemma ( my cheat sheet here ). For the first time in history content producers can build a direct relationship with views through subscribers, email addresses and mobile phone number. How will you grab email addresses?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer. Marty Zwilling.

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Berkonomics

MAY 29, 2014

Richa is a successful entrepreneur and technologist giving back to the entrepreneurial community in many ways, including his weekly Internet TV program on entrepreneurism, and participation in several mentoring programs. . Email readers, continue here.] A business plan is yours alone. By JJ Richa. Determines feasibility.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Personally, my work has shifted 80 percent to my mobile device for work communication, text, email and reading.

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