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Selling your business? Find the emotional buyer

Berkonomics

The potential buyer was a hardware company, aware that margins were decreasing and that software companies, once considered mere vehicles to help sell hardware, were now becoming the central component in a sale, mostly because hardware was fast becoming a commodity as prices dropped. Negotiating with an emotional buyer.

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Why not share your liquidity success with those who got you there?

Berkonomics

I found myself in such a situation upon a sale of my computer software company. If there have never been outside investors to organize such an option program, many CEOs never get around to creating a system for rewarding employees in a sale.

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Overall VC Fundraising Drops 33%, But AI Investment Surges

Tech.Co

Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that you’re always hearing about every piece of software on the planet getting new AI functionality : Right now, maintaining AI hype is all the startup industry has. AI’s status as the hottest buzzword is continuing to keep US startups high on the hog.

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GumGum Jumps Into Publishing With New Site

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based GumGum , the developer of computer vision and artificial intelligence software focused on the advertising industry, has jumped into the online publishing business, saying it has started a new online publication call The Visionary.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? Do you have any existing hosting relationships? Platform Are there pre-existing technical platform decisions that must be considered? How big is the anticipated development team? How will it be structured?

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“Where there’s mystery, there’s margin.”   

Berkonomics

Many companies found internal employees able to install these computers and load software easily, without employing outside professional services. But we were, as a class, happy with the fact that the computer and software costs had fallen so much that the networking costs were not an overwhelming portion of the computer budget.

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Silicon Beach Report Jan. 8: GoPro layoffs, Grindr founder leaving, new lights for Ring’s smart doorbells

L.A. Business Journal

GoPro announced layoffs and cost-cutting as the camera and software company exits the drone business; video doorbell maker Ring has acquired light maker Mr. Beams; and the founder of dating app Grindr is stepping down following the company’s acquisition by a Hong Kong-based mobile gaming company.

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