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Wow! Are your relationships important!

Berkonomics

Forming business relationships at the highest level As you follow these insights from ignition to liquidity event, you’ll detect a continuing theme, emphasizing the need for deep and wide relationships that the CEO and senior staff can call upon for advice and guidance. That last 10% is most important and often overlooked.

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Recognize your five critical business risks.

Berkonomics

Of course, there are external risks that cannot be controlled or predicted but can be planned for as well – natural disasters, sudden political or economic events that rattle the entire economy, and more. Will the marketplace accept your product? Is there a market for your class of product at all? Second is product risk.

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Need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number of investor classes into one.

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How much is that one additional unit worth?

Berkonomics

Here’s the importance of that event and how it affects every productive move you make after that moment. 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. Let’s use breakeven as our test.

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How well do you use your business time?

Berkonomics

As you follow these insights from ignition to liquidity event, you’ll detect a continuing theme, emphasizing the need for deep and wide relationships that the CEO and senior staff can call upon for advice and guidance. Forming business relationships at the highest level. Analyzing your commitments of time to business.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

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If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. Form Friendships.

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The five kinds of risk in building your business

Berkonomics

natural disasters, sudden political or economic events that rattle the entire economy, and more. Will the marketplace accept your product? Is there a market for your class of product at all? Email readers, continue here…] Second is product risk. That discussion is for a future time.