Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Many companies find acquisitions to be a decision of “make or buy.” If the price of an acquisition is so high as to make the risk of creating the product or service yourself more attractive, that alternative must be discussed with your board.

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Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

The company has created a product that can be delivered as a service to medical clinicians anywhere in the world, enhancing their ability to understand their patents’ problems and needs in less time, using the expertise built into an expert system created by the best minds in many medical specialties. How refreshing!

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Are you ahead or behind the market with your product or service? One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Second: Market risk. .

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] Third: Management risk. A third demonstration of overcoming market risk is by holding controlled focus groups and gathering information from unbiased potential customers supporting the acceptance of the product or service. And fifth: Competitive risk.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. And professional investors often penalize the company with lower-priced down rounds or expensive loans as a result.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

All those years of hard work to reach the promised land, then just as a drug owner is ready to spike it home and take a victory lap, the FDA’s hands rise over the net… OK, it’s not a perfect analogy, but it’s better than comparing the patent fight over the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 to table tennis. (Be

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Price – I am cheapskate. The hardcopy list price of $49.95 Don’t Email Carpet Bomb VCs. Don’t Overemphasize Patents. Venture Deals demystifies the VC landscape and helps entrepreneurs understand the typical VC’s motivations, responsibilities and priorities. Things I Liked Less. No Often Means No. Don’t Be A Solo Founder.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Email readers continue here.] And professional investors often penalize the company with lower-priced down rounds or expensive loans as a result. I have one story that remains as vivid in my mind as when it happened several years ago.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2023

But wait for the mic drop… [Email readers, continue here…] Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment. There was even talk of some phone companies using the patented system for serving communities of guests, not just from a single hotel. Fast forward just a few years to 1996.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Four and five star hotels loved the concept, which included redirecting outgoing calls from the cell phone by the guest to be sent through the hotel’s land line switch, making the hotel a miniature phone company with its attendant profits. These systems were not cheap as you might guess. Back to 1996.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

The key here is to provide visibility to everyone along the process--not just at the start, when you put it on the wall, or email the project plan to everyone. Anders and I own a multitude of patents at Nokia--I have 11 at Nokia--and we were inventing technology all the time. In December, we broke even, and we're already profitable.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Fast forward several years to 1996… [Email readers continue here.] There was even talk of some phone companies using the patented system for serving communities of guests, not just from a single hotel. Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment. Back to 1996. Back to 1996.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Dave Compton: NetPlenish is the first price replenishment search engine. How NetPlenish is different from any other website for pricing, is let's say that with the dog food- Alpo dog food--it will pull up who is lowest. Dave gave us an overview of the service and what it hopes to do. What is NetPlenish? That's what we focus on.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Pick an internal email system ( Gmail , Outlook ). Choose an email system to connect with customers ( Constant Contact , MailChimp , Sendgrid ). Determine a pricing system for your product(s). Recommended. Recommended.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Ryan Born is the Founder of AudioMicro , which provides a collection of royalty free music and sound effects at affordable prices. Her patented product, Swiggies (wrist water bottles), have been a NASDAQ product of the year semi-finalist and are currently sold in 24 countries. IdeaMensch.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Patent Lawsuit 6. “Patent Lawsuit&# We were on the IPO track and our #1 competitor (DoubleClick) filed a bogus patent-infringement lawsuit right before our IPO. We had lawyers everywhere; digging through files, reviewing all of our emails and mounds of paperwork. If so, buy them (at a reasonable price, of course).

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