InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. Drop Everything And Do What Your Boss Asks.

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Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] I= increase revenues. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. More importantly for management, finding a way to focus on extreme customer service will be the most inexpensive, effective marketing tool of all.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 28, 2016

But things have gotten much more complicated lately, partly because of the Uber, Lyft and other new generation of workers and the best description of their class as “semi–independent.”. But now we have to weigh in with the U.S. Department of Labor definitions as well as the Internal Revenue Service, and try to make sense of the mix.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Email readers continue here.] Actually, there are two legal duties of board members.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 3, 2016

Email readers, continue here…] We brainstormed with a consultant and each other. One idea kept rising to the top of our list: abandoning our Class A office space which had been designed and decorated with great love. It was much more than an office.

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2011

Even with the usual discount of 10%, the margins on hardware were high, especially when applied to prices that exceeded $30,000 per sale. . In the early eighties, IBM helped the PC become a tool of the office, and the product crossed over from use by early adopters to the mass market. Email readers, continue here.]

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. For us, the audience was perfect.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. In Art Of The Start , you encourage your readers to be responsive and to strive to return emails within 24-hours. You don’t really buy servers anymore…the tools are all open source. You even include your email address at the back of the book.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Some rules about stock options and phantom stock: [Email readers, continue here…] The real insight here is that stock options or phantom stock are the tools of early-stage businesses used to attract great talent when there is not enough cash to pay market rates. How about multiple classes of stock? Here are some rules.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

It also won the 2011 Appy Award in education and the 2011 About.com’s Readers Choice Award. Earlier Harold Lee, co-founder and CEO of Music Prodigy said:“Unlike other music learning tools, Music Prodigy brings expert guidance and instantaneous evaluation to anyone, anywhere, and radically simplifies the music learning process.”.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The original spark came, because my daughter, Naomi, who is six and was in first grade at the time, took a Lego Robotics class. He also had worked on the first version of a teaching tool called Alice, which was a pre-cursor to Scratch, the visual programming tool for college kids. Being a day, I wanted to help his daughter.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The irony is that currently both these onetime best in class companies are now in deep trouble. The result is that I, the reader, had no interest in what was being sold in the ad yet I am a consumer in both verticals. Many times this can be an inexpensive tool for customer retention. How does that happen? Your job is to listen.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

And then there are options: [Email readers, continue here…] Stock options or phantom stock are the tools of early stage businesses used to attract great talent when there is not enough cash to pay market rates. There are some rules. a share, then options must be priced at that amount.

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Berkonomics

MAY 12, 2010

Email readers continue here.] It there is only one class of stock, the same as the founders, and the appraisal of the single class of shares yields, say $2.00 There are some rules. First you must create a stock option plan using your attorney, which must be registered in many states as a security offering.

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