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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 28, 2020
The idea has four principles guiding and underlying every business: Higher purpose. I would expect that to seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with no clear business model.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 12, 2014
Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. Why investors care about prorata rights. In the old days there weren’t many fights about whether angels would take their prorata rights in financing rounds. Here’s what you need to know.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 14, 2013
Mostly it’s because your marketing campaigns suck. Or more directly – they are likely narcissistic resuscitations of your newest features or bragging points that nobody but your marketing team and your mom care about. But mostly they’re thinking, “Will my audience even care about this topic?”
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Most CEOs want to obtain information about their competitors in the most subtle and non-obvious ways. A fair example In my former industry, I became an informal centralized source for knowledge about the revenues of each of the many competitors, with a special skill for asking just the right questions to obtain the information.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 25, 2010
I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. Social proof is defined as “looking for others to guide our decision&# and it can be both explicit and implicit.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 31, 2022
Thus, if you are like me, with no real background or experience in public speaking, I encourage you to start early with some traditional training, like a Dale Carnegie course, or read a good book on the subject, like the classic one by successful businesswoman and speaker Jan Yager, Ph.D., “ The Fast Track Guide to Speaking in Public.”
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
How about the size of the group? How about using the names for marketing, fundraising? Advisors fill blind spots in the corporate knowledge base and guide you in areas where you feel you have a personal weakness. How about “chairman” of the advisory board? Create a formal advisor agreement listing expectations.
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