Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Email readers continue here.]. Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Better yet, the valuation of your enterprise is often higher than if the same investment were taken from a professional investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. We’ve worried together about the moral obligation implicit in taking such investments from people so close, even with their promise never to expect a return. Angel investment groups or funds.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sunstone did not say how much it invested in the round, which was announced last week by Denver-based Boom Supersonic. and carry 55 passengers, with what it claims will be a cost similar to subsonic business class. Boom said its plane, the "Overture", will travel at Mach 2.2, new-immigrant families. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Santa Monica-based prescription and healthcare marketplace operator GoodRx has priced its IPO, saying late last night that it is offering up 34,615,384 shares of its Class A common stock at $33.00 The company says it expects to net $725M after underwtigin discounts, commissions, and other expenses.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Not an investment philosophy “ I understand the sentiment of this post and it’s how I view AngelList (like email), but I feel like it loses a nuance about AngelList. Since I invest in lines, not dots , I worry about the rushed decision-making and over-hyping of deals. It’s a communication tool. I worry about that.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She did the math and realized that she could bring in more money through Airbnb than she could by having a roommate. She not only rented out her room but also rented the couch.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

On the other side, entrepreneurs and CEO’s usually have a natural fear of giving too much information to us investors after the initial investment is received. Requirements created by investment documents. They worry that we will not keep the information confidential and that financial data will find its way into competitors’ hands.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Richards , who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously also was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA, the founding president and COO of MP3.com, We spoke to Robin about the new startup, his executive team, as well as his angel investing activity here. Are there specific kinds of companies you've been investing in?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

While there is much discussion about VCs starting to pull back on their investments into startups, the LPs we surveyed don’t expect to slow the pace of investment into VC funds themselves – at least for the foreseeable future. And that’s real cash that LPs can’t put to work in other asset classes.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Through these student and faculty interactions, I have gathered empirical (but non-scientific), first-hand evidence of the factors that contribute to a world-class undergraduate entrepreneurial program. Practitioners, Not Professors – classes should be taught by people who have fought hand-to-hand combat in the startup trenches.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2014

I lived and worked in Latin America for ten years, and saw first hand how working class consumers really get abused by financial services. We also have several, high net work Mexican individuals invested in our company. Half of the time I had been in Silicon Valley, and half of the time, I had been in Latin America.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

There are four basic ways to increase the cash position of a company: inject cash through borrowing or investment, decrease spending or payments on debt, increase efficiency of operations, and increase revenues or advance payments from customers. There are several classes of obligations and several types of providers within each.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Take little to no net profit. Use voicemail, a world-class website, and personal customer service, with small expenses, to beat your big competitors. It’s critical to them, since that’s the only way they can realize a return on investment, but it limits your options for growth and change. Act big, behave small.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Sculley is currently doing well, despite his setback at Apple, as a partner in Sculley Brothers, a private investment firm formed in 1995. So here''s my net on how an entrepreneur should look at an MBA: If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

Take little to no net profit. Use voicemail, a world-class website, and personal customer service, with small expenses, to beat your big competitors. It’s critical to them, since that’s the only way they can realize a return on investment, but it limits your options for growth and change. Act big, behave small.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Take little to no net profit. Use voicemail, a world-class website, and personal customer service, with small expenses, to beat your big competitors. It’s critical to them, since that’s the only way they can realize a return on investment, but it limits your options for growth and change. Act big, behave small.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2013

Sculley is currently doing well, despite his setback at Apple, as a partner in Sculley Brothers, a private investment firm formed in 1995. So here's my net on how an entrepreneur should look at an MBA: If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

We invest large sums of our after-tax money into our funds and this gets a long-term capital gain tax rate when we make a profit. So these people invest some of their income in stocks. They can pay dividends as outlined above, which is paid a lower tax rate to people who have investment dollars. It is seldom ever mentioned.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. What we saw with CareerArc, was there was already a tremendous amount of investment in the middle of the market, with all of these different services and products that went into taking care of an employee when they were hired until they were let go. What is CareerArc?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

You may remember from 8th grade science class that Brownian motion describes the random movement of atomic matter, caused by collisions with molecules of the surrounding medium. This enterprise netted the entrepreneurial student a nice fistful of bills before each test. Investors invest in people, not ideas. Track Record.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. Seed-round investment. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Could your startup be the next one?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. How many users? We have 115 paying customers right now.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

If you are charged for every nanosecond you spend with your lawyer, consider finding one who is willing to “invest” more aggressively in your success. In order to get the most out of your discussions with your lawyer, take one or more Business Law classes. It is surprising how often entrepreneurs forget this simple fact.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! When companies wanted first class advertising placement and high-end marketing technology, we were the place to come.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 18, 2019

With an inaugural investment into the Los Angeles-based entertainment startup Culture Genesis , Clifford Harris Jr., ”, has launched a new syndicated investment vehicle called Tech Cypha. And that’s by coming together to pool our resources so we can invest more.” who’s better known as “T.I.”,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

Schwab pioneered first the discount brokerage industry and then online investing, capitalizing on the Internet to build the leading online trading company. But I have to admit that I feel blessed when I’m invited to guest lecture at MBA classes at one of the local universities. He even had to overcome dyslexia as a student.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Summarizing income statements with a line for revenues, cost of revenue, general and administrative expenses, sales and other direct costs – all leading to net income, would satisfy the legal requirement for statement of income and expense.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 27, 2025

The four basic dials to turn: There are four basic ways to increase the cash position of a company: 1) inject cash through borrowing or investment, 2) decrease spending or payments on debt, (3) increase efficiency of operations, and 4) increase revenues or advance payments from customers. Lets examine the decreases in spending first.

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