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The new Berkus SMALL BUSINESS SUCCESS COLLECTION – eBooks and books

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Announcing EIGHT new mini-books and eBooks by Master Entrepreneur, Dave Berkus , just released by The Berkus Press. As a bonus, the “quick read&# eBook and Kindle editions are priced as “singles&# at only $2.99 Individual books from The Berkus Press by clicking HERE. Creating metrics. STARTING UP! How to plan.

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The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup

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That might work for $50-100k but less likely for $3m unless you’re a seasoned entrepreneur, known to the VC, have some metrics that work in your favor or have built something the VC believes to be truly unique. And my “point A&# is only determined by what I read in the press since we never had our initial meeting.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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Ask for help reviewing your press release. Ask them for a meeting to review your pricing strategy with you. Ask them to mention you to the press, speak about you on stage when they do public events, whatever. Assigns tasks. Already covered. But seriously. Assign away. Ask your VC to send a critical email to a contact.

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How to Prepare for a Board Meeting to Make Sure you Crush It

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Photo by Hope House Press - Leather Diary Studio on Unsplash It’s also true that there will be tough moments in your company’s journey where you will want to be able to carry people behind the tough decisions you want. Often board members themselves don’t do the work to say “what metrics would we like to see.”

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition.

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Should Your Startup Give Performance-Based Warrants?

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I’ve observed the following scenario in both of my companies and in countless others I’ve advised or invested in: - your company becomes moderately high profile in a few press articles. A “warrant&# is a right, but not an obligation for a company to buy stock in your company at a future date and at a pre-agreed price.

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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management. Working with the media is required, both social as well as the press, through public relations and internal channels.

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