Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2010

The investor organization is granted the seat as long as the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position. In subsequent insights, we will explore the legal and ethical responsibilities of board members.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Companies sometime run out of cash in the midst of their increasing success, and often find that sources of loans or investment are not freely flowing at the moment of need. Young companies have been known to outgrow the abilities of management to focus and direct them, failing to make the transition to organized, stable growth.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2021

ServiceTitan’s backers are a veritable who’s who of the venture industry, with longtime white shoe investors like Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Index Ventures joining the later stage investment funds like T. Rowe Price, Dragoneer Investment Group, and ICONIQ Growth. Based in Glendale, Calif.,

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

Can you raise $750K - $1M with no future investments planned? Do you need to get past the organizations to the individuals? I’m a regular reader/listener of the Frank Peters Show that talks about Angel Investing. See investment criteria #1 from TCA. Bob is heavily focused on ROI (and team/product).

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 13, 2015

Avoid a simple pricing mistake which could sink your startup. Vendors often respond by discounting their prices at the 11th hour, in the hopes a lower price will spur a purchase. However, if you never offer price discounts to anyone, you can resist all such requests by deferring to your company “policy.”

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I was chairman of a company that, for twelve years never took a dollar of outside investment. In general, grants are made to individuals, companies, businesses, organizations or institutions that are working toward serving the greater good or a greater cause. First, an example of grant-based financing . How refreshing!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. And we’re growing our sales organization. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Every startup dreams of achieving that milestone, when they can focus more on scaling the business and enjoying their earnings, rather than fighting for another investment infusion. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Every startup dreams of achieving that milestone, when they can focus more on scaling the business and enjoying their earnings, rather than fighting for another investment infusion. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. In the investment community, this work is called proving the business model.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Here is the warning: The execution of partnership equity allocations and of a good incentive program using equity is often mismanaged, damaging the corporate capitalization structure and even affecting the outcome of subsequent investment into the company. How about the price per share? How many options are appropriate for a grant?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. In the investment community, this work is called proving the business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If there are conflicts within the team, or differing views of the strategy, or evidence of missing processes and tools, the investment process will likely be terminated. That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

This week, we saw the interconnectedness of major institutions as crypto lending protocol Celsius stuttered and brought down Ethereum prices with it as investors feared a price collapse brought on by reportedly over-leveraged players like 3 Arrows Capital. As Celsius accelerates the crypto sell-off, who pays the price?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2022

On the other hand, venture capital organizations typically look for needs that exceed $2 million. Here is where projections of cost, pricing, volumes and cash flow are critical. The average valuation for angel investments is $2 million, which will get you $500,000 for 20 percent of your startup.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Bobbie One startup that's proved to have the formula for success this year is Bobbie – the first infant formula to be certified as organic by the USDA, and the fastest-growing product of its kind to enter the US market since the 1980s. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. million site visits in October alone. Gumroad homepage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Thus founders seeking funding for a good cause or a new technology often seize on grants from universities, government agencies and philanthropic organizations as free money to solve their problems. Every organization and agency has special focus areas and related tax incentives. In the U.S. Experts are available but expensive.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Companies sometime run out of cash in the midst of success, and often find that sources of loans or investment are not freely flowing at the moment of need. Young companies have been known to outgrow the abilities of management to focus and direct them, failing to make the transition to organized, stable growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The best CEOs realize that they need to build organizations and hierarchy and delegate decision making while still holding their teams accountable. Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Equity investing is very risky, but huge returns are possible if you pick the next Facebook, but failure means your entire investment is lost. Product pre-order model. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 20, 2019

As CTO and vice president of Research and Advanced Engineering, Washington leads Ford’s worldwide research organization, oversees the development and implementation of the company’s technology strategy and plans and plays a key role in its expansion into emerging mobility opportunities. Students, you can grab your tickets for just $45.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 29, 2018

As one illustration among many I can recall, let me tell you the story of the first investment made by a newly organized formal group of angel investors. In the end, the company had to turn to a wealthy individual investor who took control of the corporation as his price for saving the company. But I digress.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2012

Sooner or later these businesses will have to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment. First, VC’s in general cannot invest in ‘S’ corporations or limited liability companies (LLC’s). Email readers, continue here.]

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Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

I am chairman of a company that, as I write this, is twelve years old and has not yet taken a dollar of outside investment. email readers, continue here.] In general, grants are made to individuals, companies, businesses, organizations or institutions that are working toward serving the greater good or a greater cause.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2023

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. Understand the need for an investment well before results. Quantify the return on investment before taking action.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. Understand the need for an investment well before results. Quantify the return on investment before taking action.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2019

Here’s a recap of the biotech companies that priced IPOs Wednesday evening. The Denmark-based biopharmaceutical company is a large, international organization whose commercialized products contributed to its $455 million-plus in 2018 revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The timing of the announcement of this investment couldn’t have been timed more perfectly if we tried. And before that you might enjoy this longer analysis on why I invested in DataSift in the first place , which was written 2.5 And from an investment perspective I remain incredibly long DataSift. ” What gives?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Given customers & sales are the lifeblood of any organization you’d imagine everybody would respect their customers. I had dinner this week with a top new customer at one of our enterprise software investments. If they want to invest that’s great. You’d be very wrong. Starting with a positive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

If there are conflicts within the team, or differing views of the strategy, or evidence of missing processes and tools, the investment process will likely be terminated. That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2020

On the other hand, venture capital organizations typically look for needs that exceed $2 million. Here is where projections of cost, pricing, volumes and cash flow are critical. The average valuation for angel investments is $2 million, which will get you $500,000 for 20 percent of your startup.

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Berkonomics

MAY 27, 2021

If you take money from knowledgeable investors, you will be required to create a board as a part of the investment process. The average board for a company taking outside investment money is five. It is the creation of a vital part of the organization, one that could be of great help in both protection and growth of the enterprise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2021

He had a clear vision of what his organization could be. Just the traits one would expect for getting a new organization off the ground. With that revelation, the founder killed the investment deal, and every other potential deal which raised the same issue. Of course, no situation is this simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” They will then line up with you, per Yvon Chouinard and Patagonia.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization.

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