SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 18, 2012

Thursday, May 24, 2012 -- Creating and Presenting Your Business Plan. If you have a business concept and want to learn more about becoming a successful entrepreneur, you are invited to attend. Email ron.pardee@rcc.edu. Entrepreneurship @ RCC.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 19, 2012

Friday, May 25, 2012 -- Creating and Presenting Your Business Plan. If you have a business concept and want to learn more about becoming a successful entrepreneur, you are invited to attend. Email ron.pardee@rcc.edu. Entrepreneurship @ RCC.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

Most board members don’t have the intention of checking email, reading the news or sending a quick text message but just like most smokers don’t want to pull out a cigarette?—?the It’s super distracting when your executives are typing away at email while the rest of the board is meant to be engaged in a discussion.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 17, 2022

We’re talking about brand strategy here. Email readers, continue here…] A good brand strategy then lists supporting arguments for both the give and the get. Or you can hope your present advertising is effective – and concentrate on learning a new skill at the ranch. So how developed is your company’s brand?

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] It is the board, made up of individual members, that is responsible for the care and maintenance of the corporate person. They can elect directors for their class of stock, approve mergers and acquisitions; approve increases or changes to the capital structure of the company and other more minor actions.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 21, 2021

When making a presentation to a new audience, the smart thing to do, if there is an opportunity, is to ask your audience by show of hands, if they have some knowledge of your industry or space. And if you are making a one-to-one presentation, don’t start without a conversation about the other person’s knowledge of your space.

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Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2024

My lesson learned about this mantra: [Email readers, continue here…] After returning to my office, I received a call from the CEO. The CEO spoke, shared metrics, spoke of issues to be addressed during the coming week, and did a fine job of pointing the assembled troops in the right direction. I could not have been more pleased.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

This sword hanging over the company is not often used but is a constant reminder that an outside investor is serious about getting out, hopefully in less than five years, at a profit, usually from the sale of the company. The newest investor has the power.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 30, 2020

If you think about it, you also remember that you spent much more of your time on strategic issues and thinking about the business and its growth, as opposed to thinking within the business about its process issues. Don’t let interruptions from emails, phone calls and people at the door interfere with this focused effort.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

The short answer is that you should have multiple versions of your “pitch deck” (a short, visual presentation in Keynote, PPT or similar and shared as a PDF) and each occasion has a specific goal. Remember that the goal of an email to a VC or an introduction from a trusted mutual connection is simply to get you the meeting. Compelling.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2024

The work continued for about eight weeks between the two of us as we visited the 27 locations and worked with employees in departments across all disciplines within each location and at central offices that performed services for all locations. We were quite confident that our services would yield great, measurable results.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I’d call in the departing employee, even those with the worst violations “for cause,” and offer an unemotional exit interview asking for their thoughts about their experience – no holds barred. Email readers, continue here…] And it worked with great effect. . The second thing was just as important.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2019

It's unclear who may have hacked the department, however, the report from NBC Los Angeles said the breach only came to light after a hacker emailed the department about the breach and presented some of the details found in those personnel records.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2020

Email readers, continue here…] In an Internet-based business, power comes not just from high gross margins, but also from an increase in the percent of conversions. The point is that once your company is stable at or above the breakeven point, one incremental unit generates robust increases in net profit. Back to the incremental unit.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

With the latter, you can make the price seem higher just by calculating the full amount of interest to be earned by the seller over time, adding that to the stated purchase price, and announcing a price much higher than the present value of the purchase. Ask for extended terms well beyond sixty or ninety days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2023

Business success is all about meeting the needs of the modern buyer, who is more informed, has access to more choices, and is ever smarter about making purchasing decisions. Nurturing stage email performance. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This presents businesses with an opportunity to enhance their search functionalities for both internal and external users. This category encompasses a vast array of content, from emails and text documents to social media posts. Pour in the soy sauce, stirring well to coat the chicken and veggies.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I am chairman of the Technology Division of the ABL Organization, a roundtable organization with multiple CEO roundtables of about twelve members each, meeting monthly. 10% is typical in exploring strategic concepts, reading about new developments in the industry and just spending quiet time contemplating opportunities.

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Berkonomics

MAY 25, 2023

How an entrepreneur’s vision statement affected me… [Email readers, continue here…] Years ago, as a panelist at an entrepreneurial seminar, I watched as over fifty aspiring young entrepreneurs filed past a microphone, each tasked with making a thirty second pitch to the panelists of professional investors.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

Learn more about the SBIR grant, and how to apply here. Learn more about the STTR grant, and how to apply here. Learn more about WOSB, and how to apply here. Learn more about the 8(a) business development program, and how to apply here. Learn more about the HUBZone program, and how to apply here.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2016

I’ve weighed in on: Email 1 —  How to Get Busy People to Take Action Email 2 —  Etiquette to Email Introductions Email 3 —  Make it Easy for Me to Forward Your Email ! Phone Calls 2 —  How to Make Better Calls Presenting at Meetings —  Without Going Down a Rat Hole Presentations —  Where Should You Sit ??

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2023

Email readers, continue here…] Generative thinkers are relentless in asking questions that get to the core of an idea, often making the originator think more deeply about the effects over a longer period of time. or “How about the public relations impact?” Some ideas sound unbelievably creative – and may be that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

Maybe they’ve hit a few set backs: They’ve struggled to raise money, they haven’t gotten press coverage or they haven’t gotten accepted to present at prestigious conferences. I’ve talked before about the need to get rid of “ that negative chip on your shoulder ” as it won’t help you in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2020

Business success is all about meeting the needs of the modern buyer, who is more informed, has access to more choices, and is ever smarter about making purchasing decisions. Nurturing stage email performance. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Email readers, continue here…] What drove my brother and me to perform, to risk so much, to skirt bankruptcy, to press on again and again? First, our family DNA made us comfortable talking about risk and self-discovery in running a business, even without formal training. Now, how about you?

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] But most importantly, it is the constant hearing of stories by these CEOs of how they were able to adapt to changes in their environment and alter the course of their leadership, adapting to external influences that had changed in their industry or the economy. Every leader has stories to tell.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

As a keynote speaker on technology trends, I often started presentations beginning with a short history of innovation in the United States, using the twist of examining innovation through the lens of 150 years of cyclic bursts of bubbles, leading to subsequent recessions and depressions. What about Edison, Bell and tesla?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

It can take 18 months from initial concern about a critical employee to getting a replacement up to speed. How about senior managers no longer at speed? PM, and that the vice president of sales, presently in the air traveling to the very country where the manager was to meet him, was not to be present.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2019

And that certainly counts for customers too, although the customer jungle drums don’t communicate quite as fast as the virtual water cooler system, even with today’s many ways of posting negative reviews about company behavior. Culture done right. People working together with only the customer in mind.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

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. How about the corporate attorney guiding a deal? How investment bankers behave. Deal books are expensive to create. Your next steps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

They realize that their productivity is suffering, as well as their health, but they don’t know what to do about it. In my experience, it’s all about work-life balance and enjoying the role. Make every effort to have your mind be totally present for each challenge from a team member or customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

As examples, I present my list of ten of the most common ways entrepreneurs can be victimized by ignorance or greed, based on questions and stories I get from entrepreneurs and associates. Chain emails leading to a windfall. With this website, and about 75 others like it, I find it hard to believe that user naïveté is the problem.

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Berkonomics

JULY 12, 2018

I recommend that you drop everything and buy this book, read it, and if you find it as powerful as I did, purchase copies for your management team, followed by planned discussions among team members about removing bottlenecks and improving efficiency throughout the organization. It is not about maximum utilization of the bottleneck.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Presentation slides serve two primary purposes. One is to support a live presentation in which each slide is annotated verbally. Presentations that meander without a story-telling structure are painful and ineffective for all parties. Present Naked - Slides all too often become a presenter's crutch. No one has.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2011

I have long wanted to write about FNAC (feature, not a company) because it’s part of my normal lexicon to push teams that present to me to think harder about where the economics in their industry is coming from. I received a couple of emails from my friends and colleagues vigorously defending GroupMe. It lingered.

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Berkonomics

JULY 11, 2013

Visit to purchase, click to close, or other terms are used in various industries to describe the measure of conversion rate from initial landing on a page displaying purchase information about a product or service.

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