Berkonomics

APRIL 7, 2022

Years ago, I led a deal and invested in a company that looked like it had lots of promise to disrupt the women’s clothing industry with special algorithms and an online store. How I didn’t follow my own advice. But something had bothered me from the very start – unsalable inventory. An entrepreneur makes a claim that stretches comfort.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2022

Email readers, continue here…] My spouse visited a website for women’s clothing, then followed it with a search for a service using a browser. Immediately, seconds after her shopping effort, ads for that same online retailer surrounded her on the other site. A personal story. Old school or new school. Which is the win–win here?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2023

Social media sites today, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, provide ideal forums for presenting your cause and your concept. Start actively blogging on your own site, as well as on industry forums. Unique and professional business cards are still well worth the investment. Requests for investment come later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

Here are some basic principles: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas. Angels like to “touch and feel” their investments, so they are generally only interested in local opportunities. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Several times in my investing life, as the final board member making the arrangements to dispose of remaining assets, I have literally been the one to turn out the lights, carry out the documents, books and records to my car, and become the only remaining contact between the failed business and the investors, bankruptcy court, or creditors.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 13, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] We talked about what this could be: major PR to drive tenants to the site; signing a deal with a major landlord to greatly increase listings; a scheme to source listings at massive scale from public data–there are a lot of possibilities, but they didn’t have that element.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

There are other social networks in the list of 300 “major sites” recognized by Wikipedia that entrepreneurs use for networking, depending on where you are in the world, like Viadeo, Ryze, and Sina Weibo, but talking to friends on Facebook probably won’t help you. Attend an investment conference. Join a local investment group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). Email marketing. One of these experts, David T. Social-media advertising. Cold calling.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Best Cybersecurity Tools for Startups With online attacks costing businesses more and more each year , investing in cybersecurity is no longer optional. The platform makes it simple to automate a number of processes too, from status updates and email notifications to progress updates and time tracking.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

We built one of our companies upon forecasted metrics for a specific class of retail consumer base, but found that there wasn’t enough money in our universe to pay for marketing to create that much dedicated traffic to our site. Email readers, continue here.] Some label this as “Bet on the jockey, not the horse.”.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. And the most logical one seemed to be “eyeballs” or number of unique users finding their way to the site or registering for the service.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 16, 2014

You know what I mean… The conversation goes something like this: “We found it on x site and using y app with z as our data object.”. Yet, many times that other person tries to explain an important finding or breakthrough, or make a significant comparison, using names of destination sites or apps or tools we have never used or heard of.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Sign up to Tech.co's weekly newsletter today Please fill in your name Please fill in your email Subscribe By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Privacy Policy. million site visits in October alone. Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? You can unsubscribe at any time. Gumroad homepage.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Jason Calacanis , CEO of Santa Monica-based search site Mahalo , said Tuesday afternoon that he and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington have parted ways, and will no longer be running the TechCrunch50 conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Cost per action (CPA).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2019

This is called inbound marketing, where customers are pulled to you, rather than feeling accosted at every turn by your brand messages via email, newspapers and television. If you have yet to get started, here are some key steps that I recommend to my advisory business clients: Actively engage customers via top social media sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

Generalized email blasts and social media ads may be great for finding interest in your services, but these are not enough to close and maintain new clients. Another major source of services clients these days is online industry directory sites and ranking review articles. Highlight your personal leadership values and experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2020

Social media sites today, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, provide ideal forums for presenting your cause and your concept. Start actively blogging on your own site, as well as on industry forums. Unique and professional business cards are still well worth the investment. Requests for investment come later.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. times and my email newsletter subscribers more than doubled. Generated > 500 Tweets, from Technorati, BusinessInsider and my site. Multimedia And Syndication. Article Title.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

Please reach out and email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, opinions or tips or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. Noam Ohana, who heads up Exor Seeds, the holding company’s early-stage investment arm, will join Via’s board. If so, go check out Layoffs.fyi, the site doesn’t just list layoffs.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The firm's web site now lists Menlo Park as its headquarters, after it raised funding from Battery Ventures, Western Technology Investment, and angel Gokul Rajaram. The firm's CEO, Jon Bischke, did not respond to emails for comment. in a Series A funding.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Email readers, continue here…]. You’ll wonder: ‘’Is this a worthy investment with probable payback in revenues? Create social media posts with links to your site that drive search engine scores and increase search traffic. So, what other benefits are there to niche marketing? Here are just a few to consider….

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

Today, when you start a brand, your first hire is probably someone to build out your Shopify site. The investment was led by Union Square Ventures and included participation from Eniac Ventures, Human Capital and Flexport. “That salesperson would have had relationships with all the different release valves for inventory.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based Mail.com Media Corporation , which operates the email service Mail.com, said today that it has acquired an entertainment focused blog, DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com. Mail.com operates a number of online content-focused sites, including HollywoodLife.com, MovieLine.com and OnCars.com, in addition to its online email services.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

For Scott Ferreira , the founder of MySocialCloud.com (www.mysocialcloud.com), it was an investment from Sir Richard Branson and Jerry Murdock. We sent in our resumes, an application about what we were doing, and after probably just two or three emails back and forth with one of his secretaries, he asked us to get to Miami in 48 hours.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Highland has been around for 22 years currently investing the 8 th fund which is $400 million. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). 11:40-14:15).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

Here are some basic principles: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas. Angels like to “touch and feel” their investments, so they are generally only interested in local opportunities. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Years ago I led a deal and invested in a company that looked like it had lots of promise to disrupt the women’s clothing industry with special algorithms and an online store. Email readers, continue here…] And the company ultimately died a painful death. I had my doubts, but led the deal anyway.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is continuing his crusade against angel groups and others who charge startups to pitch their groups, saying that he's now calling on groups to stop charging fees, and post what fees they were charging to entrepreneurs on their web sites.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

So, I wrote the business plan and get investment behind it. The problem with one of those is, as a venue, you can build a beautiful website, and click to buy tickets--and you're on a completely different, branded site. We are launching a music vertical, which is very similar to our comedy site. How is the company backed?

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. We work on behalf of brands, as a web site that has a membership base of over 2.5 This investment round is a pretty substantial financial investment.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

It's been a very busy for coupon and deal sites over the past few months, with a giant, $950M round of funding for Groupon, and the acquisition of at least three locally headquartered coupon and deal sites--LogicBuy.com, NextCoupons.com, and DealPerk--in the last month. More recently, we've been focused on deal overload.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Email readers, continue here…] My spouse just visited a website for women’s clothing, then followed it with a search for a service using a browser. Immediately, seconds after her shopping effort, ads for that same online retailer surrounded her on the other site. Old school or new school. Which is the win–win here?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

John Delacruz: A user goes to our site, tells us what they are looking for, and how many people in their party, and we find them a nearby restaurant. Before that, I worked at the Pasadena Angels, the angel investment group. How do people get those deals--is this an email or a text? How do users do that? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

There are other social networks in the list of 200 “major sites” recognized by Wikipedia that entrepreneurs use for networking, depending on where you are in the world, like Orkut, Viadeo, and Sina Weibo, but talking to friends on Facebook probably won’t help you. Attend an investment conference. Join a local investment group.

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