Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The investor organization is granted the seat as long as the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position. Almost always, professional investors, including angel groups and venture capitalists, also require at least one seat on the corporate board.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 29, 2017

If you have been following our recent insights, you’ll be up to speed knowing that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2020

Nurturing stage email performance. That makes it easier to collect results indicators, including number of emails sent, open rate, click rate, and email bounce rates. Revenue performance needs to be applied to each individual program, and also rolled up to show the overall performance per dollar invested.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Many CEOs have asked me if I felt an investment banker adds value if the buyer has already been identified. How investment bankers behave. Investment bankers sometimes slow the process by requiring a cloud-based “data room” and “deal book” to be prepared containing considerable information about a company to help a buyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Having read his latest op-ed on email I know why I erred towards the side of of not loving his book as much as some did. Apparently he’s an “organizational psychologist professor and thinks that it’s rude not to answer email. I also surmise that perhaps organizational psychologists don’t get as much unsolicited emails as some of us do.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. Email updates frequently. Each of your angels or seed investors may have 20-30 investments. Make your emails actionable. How much is too much?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

So I recommend a high-level “state of the company” email a couple of times a year but a message that you assume might get shown to others. We led an investment round in a company a while ago in which we wrote a seven-figure check and have taken a board seat. Let me give you a real world example from this week.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Here’s the problem: Investors sometimes join into investment rounds that have been pre–negotiated by others, receiving the paperwork already created by attorneys from that negotiation. Email readers, continue here…] The answer is obviously in the importance of the issue to the person discovering it.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Be careful about investor rights This important variation on money talks is an important consideration for entrepreneurs when seeking an investment from professionals such as VCs. Something like a marriage (and often lasting just as long statistically), your investment partner can be a great cheerleader, coach and resource.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] One day Tom came to me and said, “I want to transfer to marketing. Five years later, I received an email from Tom. An email to preserve and show. 33 million return from $100 thousand investment, or 330 to1. $33 million return from $100 thousand investment, or 330 to1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. My basic philosophy is that almost anybody can build a network by investing time in it. Maybe 50 if you really invest time and effort.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 13, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] From Basic Berkonomics: Available Amazon, B&N, berkus.com and booksellers everywhere. sometimes kid them, as a seemingly pointless anecdote trickles to an end, with the capper “…and then you found five dollars?” Story seems to be an artifact of the human brain, and soul.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2019

Sooner or later you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment. First, VC’s in general cannot invest in ‘S’ corporations or limited liability companies (LLC’s). What VC’s can and cannot do. How did you structure your first round? .

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment. Draconian terms?

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

near real-time automated intelligence gathering systems that scour public and private data sources like websites, blogs, social media and email to unearth information businesses can use for competitive advantage. Bitvore, led by Jeff Curie, said that it has developed a.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And investing in content companies won’t return money! Watch out for an investment announcement from me here soon. 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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

For all the things he’s likely known for, he probably hasn’t yet built a strong relationship as an early stage venture investor (he invests often in later-stage deals where he is very respected). My email back to him was a version of. “This is a very accomplished executive in his industry across more than 20 years.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

Some relatives believe that a family bond is an insurance policy, and that all investments or notes will always be repaid, no matter what the circumstance. Consider whether the family member being asked to invest has the capacity to walk away “happily” from a lost cause. The problem, of course, comes if the business fails.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 20, 2025

This is one interpretation of It takes money to make money , although that statement was probably created to describe new investment opportunities. And oil is a lubricant [Email readers, continue here…] But the most important lesson to remember is that cash is the great lubricant for businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program. We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. Sam had different plans.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 5, 2014

It is possible to grow a company to a valuation of $30 million on one or two angel rounds of investment. Email readers, continue here.] Scalability is a critical factor for angel investment. Yet, at the pre-revenue stage of development, angel investors price both companies at a pre-money valuation of $1.5

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2012

And they invest n select VC funds. 45 minutes in: Andrew’s process for investing in startups. 6:30 Do you disclose which funds you’ve invested in? 30:30 Are you investing in email? 45:15 What’s your process for investing in startups? That they own a large piece of The Discovery Network? Watch: [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals. What I’m saying is that you can’t spend all of your time in email working your inbox. ” What do I mean? It’s inbound.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 8, 2018

You do not pay professional investors who are serving on behalf of an investment company or VC and paid by that company. Email readers, continue here…] For lifestyle companies or later stage companies, board members should be paid on a per-meeting basis in cash.

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Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

Each one of these terms includes aspects of fairness, ethics, law, business, entrepreneurship, psychology and investing. Email readers, continue here.] Angel investing today is similar to where venture capital investing was in the mid-1980s.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

That’s a reason why some are quick to portend “a new bubble” but this post sets out to show that would be a misunderstanding of the market and in fact by historic levels this may be amongst the best times to invest in seed and early-stage funds. Maybe add your email to receive the next post delivered to your email box?

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] So we switched to distribution through partners which already had massive amounts of traffic, and concentrated in providing great content and great offers that more than made up for the sharing of revenues. There is a name for such a change in focus, in this case from retail to wholesale. Starting up'

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

I see it on email even more. But less as a complaint and more as advice to younger networkers, the more you invest in relationships the more you will get when you need. ” In it he talked about how he gets daily emails asking for intros to Oprah (he does a lot of work with her) and his advice. ” I see it on Twitter.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In my years of investing, I’ve developed a set of tough questions that are sure to elicit both information and a vibrant dialog – questions not on the usual checklists of angel groups or investors. Will you and your managers plan to invest cash on the same terms and conditions as you ask? By: Arthur Lipper.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Email readers, continue here.] The IRS could see that you are not paying yourself interest on the accrued debt, and consider it invested capital, eliminating your ability to repay yourself in the future. Ultimately, the accrued difference will amount to a large enough liability that several things could happen, all of them negative.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 27, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Once achieved, a goal is meant to be overwritten with a newer one, set to even higher standards. You’ll find others buying into the objective and even creating better ways to achieve it because they are invested in the dream and the measure of that dream – the mutual goal. That is measurable.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 18, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] I was chairman of a company that had been offered an investment by a Fortune 500 company offering to make a strategic investment in our business, which would be capable of driving new demand to the large company through a series of new web services creating a greater need for the large company’s products.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Gross and Barnehama met through a mutual friend in the robotics industry in Los Angeles, the chief executive of Embodied, Paolo Pirjanian, Barnehama wrote in an email. After about a year of research, the company launched with an initial investment of $1.2 They have the talent, expertise, and vision to deliver on that commitment.” .

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

Even venture capitalists who sit on boards where they have significant investments often forget this point. They write in their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. They knew the venture math that if only 50 companies / year are sold North of $100 million the entry price for their investments mattered. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 At least in the consumer & business web.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. He doesn’t email you. Hell, I can barely manage 10 investments – how could anybody do 500? I doubt he owns an item of clothes worth more than $20. Not the Dave I know. The Dave I know is very humble.

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