InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. The biggest motivator for starting brightblu was John Greathouse’s Entrepreneurship class. Share and Enjoy.

Class 231

Class Startup Santa Barbara RSS 231

Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before. Email readers, continue here…] Yes, Amazon is partially to blame. Thought so. We are in a decade of creative destruction that will affect most everybody. Last year, Amazon employed 145,800 workers.

Artificial Inteligence 295

Artificial Inteligence Class Coach Education 295

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Don’t you wish that someone had prepped you on how to read the body language, interpret office gossip, and when to hit the delete key on your email rather than the send key? Business Writing for Email. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens.

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Class Course Writing Slides 93

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

During the discussions with the CEO about hiring North American managers, he made it clear that he wanted us to find a first-class office facility from which to start the search process, and proceeded to name cities that attracted him.

Startup 256

Startup Class Email Tool 256

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Leverage: with teachers not having to have in-person classes you can build a more cost-effective model and teaching can be targeted more to your individual needs. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Because email works!

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

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 marketing to create that much dedicated traffic to our site. Email readers, continue here.]

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Startup Summary Metrics Class 245

Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2023

And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before. Email readers, continue here…] By 2024, at least ninety percent of the global population will have regular Internet access. Thought so. That is six-tenths of one percent of the world’s population.

Artificial Inteligence 296

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Generative AI Class 296

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

They can travel the world, take classes in interesting subjects, spend time with loved ones or start new hobbies. Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open. And from email we added IM, Facebook and LinkedIn where people contact us. Yeah, right!

Startup 295

Startup Email Technical Review Course 295

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I recently got an email from a friend who had been approached by a well known VC. He sent me an email asking whether the approach was real and whether he should take it seriously. Here is the email he received (reprinted without names with his permission). Why do VCs send generic outbound emails like this?

Venture Capital 294

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Email Equity 294

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. a share, then options must be priced at that amount.

Equity 256

Equity Class Pricing Sales 256

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. He doesn’t email you. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. I doubt he owns an item of clothes worth more than $20. Not the Dave I know. And thoughtful.

Startup 309

Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

Rexter''s software--which runs across mobile platforms, tablets, and PCs--helps consolidate and manage their contacts from across social networking sites and email, and helps users manage those contacts and activities.

Altadena 100

Altadena Class Pasadena Yahoo 100

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Days before the official start date, she makes sure that the new employee’s business cards arrive in the mail, that the employee’s phone and Internet services are up and running, and that an email account is already established. How about teaching a class in corporate culture yourself to one or more new employees?

Startup 207

Startup Email Class Examples 207

Berkonomics

JULY 11, 2013

Email readers, continue here.] The major focus that used to be in using the direct mail business to drive sales is now focused upon email marketing campaigns, social networking marketing, building buzz, and location-based sales using tools to recognize shoppers at the point of sale.

.Net 207

.Net Sales Tool Social Network 207

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

should you email before you call? 15:00 Hire somebody who will punch above their weight class. how much research should you do before a sales visit? Telesales versus field sales? how do you know when it’s OK to have telesales versus people in the field. should you have calls scripted for telesales? What tools do you use?

Software Review 300

Software Review Sales Tips Help 300

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] The format also calls for the CEO to examine his calendar over time and report classes of activities by percentage of total time spent, so that the group may add comments about use of CEO time to the critique.

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Class Organization Activity Customer 243

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] But – before or after that ninety day line – surprisingly, in post-exit interviews after emotions have dissipated, most former employees (who were handled respectfully during the separation process) and most managers will agree that the move should have been made sooner.

Coach 243

Coach Class Training Email 243

Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2017

But the problem was solved, and response times returned to “immediate” for at least this class of customer call. Email readers, continue here…] But “There’s the rub” (the snag) wrote Shakespeare in Hamlet. It took several months to hire and train enough new support reps to keep up with the rapid growth of our company.

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Training Resource Press Satisfaction 243

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

eduFire , an startup which offers online video classes, apparently has relocated to Menlo Park from Santa Monica, after raising $1.3M The firm's CEO, Jon Bischke, did not respond to emails for comment. in a Series A funding.

Funding 140

Funding Santa Monica Education Class 140

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

When I graduated from Wharton in 1989, I was one of the few in my class who shunned the investment banking / consulting path for the life as an initially unpaid entrepreneur. Action vs. Analysis - Although its use is in decline, many MBA classes are still taught via the Socratic case method. Share and Enjoy.

Entrepreneur 279

Entrepreneur Technical Review Case Study Class 279

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

The last money has the first say – in valuation and in sometimes forcing draconian terms that require prior investors to contribute a proportional new investment to retain a semblance of their original rights and avoid dilution or worse yet, involuntary conversion to a lower class of stock. The newest investor has the power.

Venture Capital 292

Venture Capital Sales Invest Class 292

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2017

I put on an out-of-office notice (see below) and received some of the nicest emails and text messages including from my good friend Michael Broukhim who ensures me that he and his brother Danny still vacation with their parents and Mike & Danny are both in their 30s! When I get back I don’t plan to spend 50 hours processing old emails.

Carson 286

Carson Email Writing Startup 286

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

He was in the inaugural class of 500Startups and became chief evangelist as far as I could tell. He sent me a few nice emails. Months later I did agree with Christine Tsai that I would come out and talk to the class. He of coursed required me to lobby on his behalf as well. I thought that was the end of it. Just kidding.

Startup 372

Startup Course Ideas Invest 372

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. So What is Different for Class Three? Adam played a hands-on role in helping many of our last class through funding and even took some board seats and advisory roles. ” We get feedback like this often.

Venture Capital 287

Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They can elect directors for their class of stock, approve mergers and acquisitions; approve increases or changes to the capital structure of the company and other more minor actions. Sometimes, there will be a conflict of interest between the people representing the various shareholder classes on a board. Email readers continue here.]

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Class Coach Invest Sales 179

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

We thought we'd get the pitch from Tim Sae Koo , the founder of the company, on how he took the idea from his business class at USC and turned it into a company, which is now part of one of the local startup accelerators in town, StartEngine. What is interesting about this, is I came up with this idea from my entrepreneurship class.

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USC Startup Web Ideas 252

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Friends, family and fools: [Email readers, continue here…] This term, although pejorative, describes the typical mix of early investors in a small, young growing business. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number of investor classes into one. These include Y-Combinator and TechStars, among others.

Venture Capital 295

Venture Capital Startup Class Invest 295

Berkonomics

APRIL 12, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Notice that every poster that is required to be displayed in a company public area (usually the lunch room) is posted for the benefit of the employee to inform him or her of rights granted by law. Encourage reviewers to be accurate, not just polite, in documenting areas of concern.

Entrepreneur 226

Entrepreneur Class Resource Email 226

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 22, 2012

If you have been wondering about social media and how to get involved , this is the class for you. Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Google+ and other platforms are reviewed in this interactive class. Email Amani@woodsidemediagroup.com. It's time to dive into the social media world.

Social Media 113

Social Media Media Class Google 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Sendgrid offers up API-based email services, used by many Internet, e-commerce, on-demand and other service providers to send emails to their customers. Twilio said it would pay 0.485 shares of Twilio Class A common stock for each share of SendGrid common stock, or approximately $36.92

Orange County 113

Orange County Email Commerce Class 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Flinja was co-founded by Victor Young, Rebecca Bahr, and Calvin Shen, and was part of the Summer 2012 class from Howard Marks' StartEngine effort. The firm showed off its service at the DEMO conference today, saying that its service is now available at both USC and UCLA, and will soon launch at Stanford.

UCLA 145

UCLA USC Class Conference 145

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 even include your email address at the back of the book.

Santa Barbara 262

Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Two, Southern California companies are on the list of the next class for Microsoft's startup accelerator, the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure , according to Microsoft Monday. Microsoft said it had ten finalists who will be included in the three month program--powered by TechStars--to help accelerate companies using Windows Azure.

Southern California 140

Southern California SoCal San Diego Class 140

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I thought through the steps: Get a class of interesting companies. Responsive Low Hanging Fruit – I view email in the category of urgent but not (always) important. Sounds harsh but when you think about it that’s what email really is. Get VCs to agree to join. Figure out a way to finance it.

Slides 374

Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

Berkonomics

JUNE 17, 2011

Most businesses fall into the class of those that can be sold someday to a willing buyer. Email readers continue here.] Even small community service-providers can be sold to buyers hungry to get into a business already in revenue with a steady customer base.

Equity 209

Equity Class Email Competition 209

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Recruiting – One of the hardest tasks of any startups is recruiting world-class talent. Enterprise Sales – The very first thing a potential customer does when you email or call to set up a meeting is Google you. They don’t show up in a calculation that says I spent $7,000 and I got X-thousands inches of press.

Press 415

Press Google Course Writing 415

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number investor classes into one. It is most often a win-win for both you and the strategic partner.

Venture Capital 266

Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266