Berkonomics

MARCH 19, 2020

Who would have thought about COVID 19 and public’s panic responses? Have you called your team to brainstorm the next steps in this ever-moving black swan event? The” black swan” event questions. And how about “Contagion” and the many books and movies about pandemics? Image credit: Alexas_Fotos / Pixabay.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2019

Tesla will pull back the curtains and unveil its Model Y crossover vehicle at an event in Los Angeles on March 14th, according to a tweet from chief executive Elon Musk. Model Y unveil event on March 14 at LA Design Studio. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 3, 2019. There will be some layoffs as a result.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 30, 2020

But you remember the thrilling days when everything was newer, each decision an event, each milestone something to be celebrated. Then call a strategic planning session, off site, for you, your board, your advisors, and direct reports. The all-company meeting: Get everyone excited about change. Your value to the company.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2013

Our second measure of the effectiveness of accelerators, was the number of funding events (angel, venture capital, other funding) associated with companies out of the region. According to our tally, over the last year, 18 of the accelerator''s companies received some kind of funding event. Not far behind was Science Inc. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2018

Working with live events like concerts, where timing is less regimented than at a typical sporting event (which are marked by tip offs and halftimes that adhere to a pretty regimented schedule), proved too much for the initial rollout of the company’s stash drop. At least on the first night, things didn’t go as planned.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2023

But… I read several years ago that the average startup restaurant lasts only about a year. Census Bureau reports that 400,000 new businesses are started every year in the USA, but 470,000 are dying. Bureau of Labor Statistics states that 50% of all businesses survive five years or more, and about one-third survive ten years or more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

.” The most recent was 18 months ago or so called The Kauffman Report. It had an influence on the people who fund our industry in a negative way as many asset managers who fund our industry read this flawed report. That’s a shame because many of these people missed out on what will be a few great VC vintages.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. Leadership is about recognizing your next generation of talent and helping lift them up. Or, maybe it’s just about getting out of the way and watching what they can achieve. Wait, What About Yves? She’s empathetic and brings great humor to her work as well.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. This is where investigative reporting, enterprise pieces and analysis on transportation lives. This investment would give Uber ATG a valuation of between $5 billion and $10 billion, WSJ reported.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

For those not familiar with Grow Credit, talk about what your service does? That's a big event for us, and our performance has been fantastic. What's interesting about that, is we are reporting those as installment loans, so over a year that's a $180 loan reported to the credit bureaus.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The #MeToo movement has impacted drinking policies at major companies – most prominently, WeWork dropped its unlimited beer tap option last October following sexual assault allegations at WeWork events. Specifically, a little over half (53%) of the tech industry was found by the study to include alcohol at the team bonding events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2020

The challenge is to create positive recharge events for you and your team on a regular basis, rather than waiting for that one big success indicator, like record profits or going public, to override all the negative crises along the way. Schedule all-hands events to celebrate each and get everyone’s batteries recharged.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

GitHub talked about making these changes as early as June, when CEO Nat Friedman tweeted that it was something the company was already working on. As we mentioned last week, the Yes on 22 campaign has put in about $180 million into the campaign while the No on 22 side has put in about $4.6 The other 25% are undecided.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2023

They have enough confidence in their ability to deliver that they don’t worry about someone stealing the idea to get there first, and they don’t forget to listen carefully to critical feedback. Stories are the grist reporters look for, and they make you unique and memorable.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

We’re expected to be at conferences, events, sales meetings and be publicly visible. And then there are investors who want updates, calls, reports, check-ins. We all know executives who constantly talk a good game about vision and the things they’re going to do but actually never seem to deliver results. Put first things first.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

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.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We caught up with Lauren to hear about Hopscotch, and why teams and schools are turning to the company to power their mobile apps. Laurence Sotsky: I started the company about two and a half years ago, with the intent of connecting people to their passions. Once you're inside, we do a lot of things during an event or on game day.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

Today I want to talk briefly about why I believe Snapchat is an important media company. For most who don’t yet use Snapchat frequently I know the economic case feels like a stretch of the imagination because you’re caught up in the original Snapchat and I’m trying to offer a perspective about where the puck may be going.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

She holds a weekly meeting of her direct reports, and asks them to find three important but actionable items for the group to work on if not complete during the following week. There is a theory about agile leadership that has been advanced by a number of business book authors, and this CEO’s method fits within that concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Erase the qualms about failing, and willingly accept failure if it comes, as the ultimate learning opportunity. The glamour of wealth will quickly tarnish if you don’t feel passionate about the work you are doing. It has to start long before that, with a mindset event that drives a real change in behavior.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I’m your host, Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. This week, TechCrunch reporter Romain Dillet reported that Coup, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bosch that operates an electric moped scooter-sharing service in Berlin, Paris and Madrid, is shutting down. A subscription reboot.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 9, 2017

I read several years ago, that the average startup restaurant lasts only about a year. Census Bureau reports that 400,000 new businesses are started every year in the USA, but 470,000 are dying. Bureau of Labor Statistics states that 50% of all businesses survive five years or more, and about one-third survive ten years or more.

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Tech.Co

JULY 1, 2019

Tragically, these negative feelings towards e-scooters have manifested in a lot of ugly ways, as is evident from the events that transpired in Portland last week. Fortunately, despite the likely malicious nature of the vandalism and the arduous work put in to the cleanup, the police still have a good sense of humor about the incident. “We

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Live at the Apple Event: iPad Mini (and more?). Live at the Apple Event: iPad Mini (and more?). 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5, 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Let’s talk about surprises. And whether to warn your superiors or your boards about these unraveling events early. Email readers, continue here…] Whatever the problem, the person or board to whom you report does not want to hear about it after it has become a threat to the enterprise.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

There’s a lot of mystique about what happens at board meetings and a lot of imagined board-room drama. And of course we help with business development introductions and with fund raising events. Those seldom get reported. Often we are asked to get involved in executive-level recruiting.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this guide, you'll learn exactly what Claude is, how it works, and all about its parent company, Anthropic. However, its dataset was cut off in 2022 and it can't connect to the internet, so it struggles to give accurate answers relating to events that happened after that point in time. What is Anthropic AI? What is Claude AI?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

Here’s how you should think about your PR plan. And while obvious this misses a critical point - PR is not only about your users. If you’re a fashion product you obviously care about having way more products featured in the vertical trade mags or niche blogs for that sector. Perception = reality.

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Berkonomics

MAY 9, 2013

How do you avoid being sideswiped by the new product you never saw coming, or by the “black swan” event no-one ever thought of – that might threaten your business? Great executives and managers seem to intuitively know what they don’t know. But it is not at all uncommon to not even know what questions to ask.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Their product suite, PREtect, contains 5 cyber risk management solutions designed to optimize the protection of data assets and the detection of malicious events by addressing the most common vulnerabilities in the enterprise. Panamplify is the reporting easy button for businesses. Read more about budding startups on TechCo.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Speaking onstage at the Upfront Summit, an event at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. In some ways, it’s likely the kind of rejuvenation that John Doerr was hoping for when he approached Social + Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya about “acquiring” that upstart firm back in 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. Let me be clear about this. Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In addition, current investors want to see every startup go public or be acquired, as an exit event, so they can get their due return for that investment which has been tied up for the last few years. Most startup founders don’t relish the thought of managing repeatable processes, greedy stockholders, and endless regulation reports.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

We spoke with Ben about how Burstly is now creating a company to help mobile developers create, develop, distribute, and monetize their apps. It''s not just about banner ads, it''s a tool that allows you to integrate with an ad network, giving you the flexibility to pick what ads and offers you want, where in your app.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The lawsuit, which was filed by Christina Krause, the company’s former head of communications and Stefan Krause’s wife, was first reported by The Verge. The lawsuit also reveals more details about Canoo — originally named Evelozcity — its investors and how it has scaled in a just a few years time.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 6, 2013

But you remember the thrilling days when everything was newer, each decision an event, each milestone something to be celebrated. Then call a strategic planning session, off site, for you, your board, your advisors, and direct reports. If needed, hire a facilitator. And provide for someone to take notes. It’s your move.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2020

They have enough confidence in their ability to deliver that they don’t worry about someone stealing the idea to get there first, and they don’t forget to listen carefully to critical feedback. Stories are the grist reporters look for, and they make you unique and memorable.

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