TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. Are there user stories? AI Assisted Development How can we use AI to speed up our SLDC? How can we leverage AI to get our product to market faster? Our advice: keep it small to start.

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? In those days we did it for the joy of problem-solving and seeing something we created in our brains be realized in the real world (or at least the real, digital world). Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. “As part of our commitment to serve the public conversation, we’re working to clean up inactive accounts to present more accurate, credible information people can trust across Twitter,” the company said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

Because it’s comparatively easier to have a first meeting, meet each other, share stories, etc. We invest 40% of our dollars in Southern California firms?—?and We’re definitely not a “regional investor” but we do have some comparative advantage in a good portion of our deals. But here’s the thing?—?it’s

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2020

This is a message we have been delivering to our portfolio privately so we figured it made sense to make it more public broadly in case its of any help to others. I had originally signed up to talk about the “VC Market Trends” overall but it seemed inauthentic to speak about VC funding without addressing the virus in the room.

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Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2023

Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. “My Our current graduating class of college seniors reflects much of the past needs of our economic society, just as they did in the early 1970’s, when many bet that aerospace jobs would continue to be the hot job ticket. Thought so. Just check your local store fronts.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2023

So, I tell personal stories to show that we all should look for lessons learned by others. It took several months to hire and train enough new service reps to keep up with the rapid growth of our company. The post A personal story about quality control first appeared on BERKONOMICS. Here’s one that is “on me.”

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Berkonomics

MAY 17, 2018

Here comes another story. It is a story about focus upon the customer, first. My personal story of celebration. Years ago, an emergency phone call was directed to my office from our distributor in Australia. This story has a second happy ending. Some examples of celebration you can use. Customer first, always!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2022

Naturally, these are important, but real winning content has to start with a story that excites people’s imagination, and pulls them in emotionally. The hook is everything, and a story fragment to clutch their hearts is the key to holding their minds. We yearn for things that engage our senses, and give us hope.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! Applying that solution to our job matching site made perfect sense. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

And, as in today’s story, sometimes it can mean the beginning of an amazing journey leading to a story for the ages… We’d all like to retain our best managers and employees forever or at least for as long as possible. Here is one such departure story I tell often. Celebrate the transition. Keep me informed.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As with all promotions, the reality is that Kara was already acting as a senior leader at our firm and also in the industry at large. Our industry needs more female leaders and they shouldn’t have to all quit their respective firms and raise their own funds to get a shot at running things. So What Does All This Mean?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

So Khan set out to change the selling experience for these new companies that want to have a better way to communicate with their potential customers… a way to really tell their story online. “[Now] we’re launching ‘Verified Shop’ where any DTC brands can sell on our platform. ” Khan asked.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

At TechEmpower , we’ve used generative AI across a wide range of capabilities for ourselves and our clients. This includes: Github Copilot, PR summarization, user story creation including test and edge cases, creating unit and behavior tests, query optimization, debugging, and more.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It’s a story of how people handle unusual situations when selling to the top – an executive of a prospective customer. And the stories couldn’t be more different. First, my friend’s story…. This leads me to my story. . Well, I should have led the meeting with my story of woe to protect others. Who was right? .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” The story is Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy and the amazing team that supports them. Mostly kidding.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Even the best of us falls into a routine in our jobs. . It is human nature to do so, but it is not a sign of our best efforts. It just takes a bit of effort to change our mindset. A favorite story about such a CEO. We can be that person again. We may run out of fresh ideas after a time; most of us do.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2020

“As a founding partner to [Art of Sport] he was woven into the very fabric of our company and its vision and DNA. As a mentor we drew on his wisdom, passion and drive everyday… In the short term our thoughts and hearts are with him, Gianna and his surviving family.” An all-time legend, and our friend and supporter.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In my life as an early-stage investor, I’ve been closely involved with so many businesses, there were bound to be numerous stories of actual and near failures, hopefully from which to learn lessons for all of us as we go forward. In aviation circles, we read in our pilot magazines about “Never again!” Why do we tell this story?

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

A personal story of a pivot – Tyson style. We built one of our companies upon forecasted metrics for a specific class of retail consumer base but found that there wasn’t enough money in our universe to pay for the amount of marketing to create that much dedicated traffic to our site. Celebrate our versatility.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright. Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. The birth of our company! Today, we share the thoughts of Anthony Citrano , the founder and CEO of Acquicient (www.acquicient.com).

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This story has turned out to be one of the most enduring posts ever for me, well worth repeating. I confess that our research cannot find its source. We often ignore the ants in our work lives, thinking – perhaps subconsciously – that value equates to salary level, or lowest level workers can be replaced. Eagerly anticipating.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

So, it seemed perfectly natural that my brother and I find our separate callings as entrepreneurs from the very start. Our two important drivers of innovation. First, our family DNA made us comfortable talking about risk and self-discovery in running a business, even without formal training. Dad’s story of risk avoidance.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 4, 2022

In my early journalism classes, I was taught the five “W’s” of good news stories, and that most should be in the first paragraph at that. A personal story to illustrate. Our solution. Remember the five “W’s?”. Who, what, when, where and why are the five, with sometimes a “how” thrown in for those followers of the macabre.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how The landscape is literally and figuratively changing under our feet. I often answer the same way … * “First, yes, nearly every corner of our market is over-valued. How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges? Of course we can’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

León Krauze from Univisión gave an impassioned keynote presentation at The Upfront Summit on the topic of “invisibility” of immigrant workers in our society. He told the story of the young artist, Ramiro Gomez who was born in San Bernardino, near Los Angeles. They all shared the same story?—?they Invisibility. Invisibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

Because it felt small and we also felt like we didn’t miss much and when we shared our friends saw it. As Twitter grew everybody’s followed counts grew, which meant that we missed things in our timeline and our friends missed a lot of what we shared. There are two reasons that stories was a big leap forward for Snapchat.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

We were quite confident that our services would yield great, measurable results. Email readers, continue here…] On the final day of our assignment, I was responsible for the “reporting out” to the assembled twenty or so executives in the large conference room of this major corporation. But most were just ignored.

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2019

A lot of our readers have asked if we could add some video content to our news stream, and we've started talking with local entrepreneurs, investors, and others to learn more about how Southern California's high tech industry is growing and expanding. Let us know if you have a story you think should be featured in our video segments!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

In the past two weeks we have entered perhaps to most surreal experience in any of our lives. In our business lives we’re having to deal with decisions that could have lasting impacts on our companies without any compass to guide us in the direction we’re heading . What do we eat? Where do we shop? What is safe? you name it.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

Our interview this morning is with Alex Nocifera of Los Angeles-based Field Day. So we reinvented ourselves, and now use our marketing ambassadors to do phone outreach. Early Q1 2020, our business literally came to a horrifying halt in March, and then April. I had a freakout about getting our ambassadors off the streets.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 16, 2023

And I have numerous stories from personal experience that reinforce these two traits as the most positive indicators of future success in business. Since we all learn from our mistakes, it seems reasonable that we should learn from the mistakes of others, particularly those who freely offer their experiences as lessons for our enterprise.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Back then only 15% of our dollars were invested locally whereas today 50% of our dollars are invested in LA. I hope you’ll take a minute to read about Fika Ventures but by quick background it is a $40 million LA-based seed fund founded by three of our favorite local investors: Tianxiang Zhuo , Eva Ho & arteen arabshahi.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 2, 2023

Completion of a software project by the remote workers in (Philippines, Brazil, Armenia, fill in the blank… Just name a country whose daytime is our nighttime.) And yet, I’ve seen and heard stories of companies that ramped prematurely directly as a result of management euphoria, especially in the software and medical device niches.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

What we discuss internally and what I discuss with my LPs is outlined as follows: We back 36–38 Series Seed / Series A companies per fund (we have a separate Growth Fund) Our median first check is $3.5 Since our funds are around $300 million each this returns 2–4x the fund if we do it right. We do other things, too.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 28, 2020

“We’re partnering with Bev because we’re comfortable buying the product ourselves and telling our friends to buy it,” said Sarah Foster in a statement. Our community trusts us to be authentic to ourselves and our brand, and we strive to do that. Bev ’s female-oriented mission and movement align with our personal interests.

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