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Your board should protect you!

Berkonomics

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. 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.

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Take advantage of the good times to build stakeholder loyalty.

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The truth is that many employees merely make a simple pact: timely pay for time in service. Email readers, continue here…] Sometimes a secondary fund-raising effort leads to a lower valuation than the last. Investor loyalty is most tenuous of all. Simple building blocks for difficult times. The message here is simple.

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How much is that one additional unit worth?

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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.

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Recognize your five critical business risks.

Berkonomics

Is there a market for your class of product at all? Whether it is you or a quality control manager, someone must assure that the product or service you send out to the world will not fail to perform at least to the level of customer expectation, if not to delight those customers most likely to be critical. First, there is market risk.

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Can a revolutionary concept be too late to market?

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If the market is moving quickly toward your class of product or service, you may be able to gain a piece just by being there at the right time with the right product or service. Certainly there were resources available to point the company toward the information. A story of a company that couldn’t see far enough ahead.

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Can a revolutionary concept be too late to market?

Berkonomics

If the market is moving quickly toward your class of product or service, you may be able to gain a piece just by being there at the right time with the right product or service. Certainly there were resources available to point the company toward the information. A story of a company that couldn’t see far enough ahead.

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The power of just ONE more unit.

Berkonomics

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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