Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. I know you emailed me and I emailed you back. At night I had a group dinner where I met 6 new entrepreneurs and hung out with some old friends from law firms, banks and other VC funds. But it’s only Tuesday.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Email readers, continue here…] The same careful management applies to virtually every person and process in the organization. Such a culture of quality engineering has an additional benefit in creating a higher bar for all to see, making the public statement that quality is a top priority. Is this just your problem?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. Below is a screenshot of the email sent Tuesday morning to Maven customers. Image Credits: Screenshot/Maven email. The Verge was the first to report the story.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

As executives we’re all seemingly accessible at any moment to anybody via email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Text. It’s why sometimes I respond to emails in 5 minutes at other times I go dark for a week at a time. We are over-intro’d and at the same time under-resourced in terms of staff to handle the barrage of in-bound requests.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 8, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] The best advice to anyone considering this course of action is to measure one’s ability to take the risk. Can you take the risk? That ability varies with economic status, age, responsibility to family, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Remember: In-Person > Web Conference > Phone Call > Email > Data Room If you run a good process and if the investor is truly interested (even if busy and doesn’t respond as fast as you’d like) then each major step of analysis on their side can be a series of documents you trade them in exchange for more proof of engagement.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

Remember that the goal of an email to a VC or an introduction from a trusted mutual connection is simply to get you the meeting. You want to send just enough to get the meeting (and of course a great deck sells better than a long email) and not so long that you don’t leave a chance to wow the person in your actual meeting. Poppycock.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 16, 2020

That’s why we’re waiving the Delivery Fee for all orders from every independent restaurant on Uber Eats —more than 100,000 local restaurants on the app,” the company said in an email Monday morning. Customers can find the independent restaurants by looking for the EAT LOCAL banner in the app.

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Berkonomics

MAY 30, 2024

Expect a board member to give a meeting a month, emails and phone calls between. In addition, most board members freely receive phone calls and emails from the CEO during the month, all considered part of board service. Urgent issues require more of all. Of course this is a tricky question.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2020

According to an email to current customers of Hollar--known for its "dollar store" style, grab bag of products--Hollar will "soon become Five Below" and continue to offer up its $1 to $5 products, and occasional products of up to $10.

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Berkonomics

JULY 20, 2023

and this is a forecast: [Email readers, continue here…] But during the year, if the forecast revenues fall short or are greatly exceeded, it is fair to revise the budget and rethink your hiring and resources.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 17, 2021

When test results are ready, customers get an email with a link to a website to get their results. TTS chief executive Lauren Trenkle, who was copied on an email chain, did not comment. How Jamaica failed to handle its JamCOVID scandal. How to respond to a data breach.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] We worry over projections and fix our budgets to match, and then we manage to the revenue and costs of the budget. Although the scale of those businesses Bezos works with is probably much larger than those we deal with, his question is intriguing for multiple reasons. Looking for that silver lining….

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2023

Finding your champion investor… [Email readers, continue here…] Attracting a VC investment means finding a partner in a VC firm who is willing to champion your opportunity before their partnership and then represent that firm with a seat on the board once the investment is made.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This creates exciting opportunities for people to use nutrition even more effectively as a source of consistent, overall health and wellness,” Barber wrote in an email.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 11, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] And there is always the great open-door question: “Would it be OK if we followed up by email to request a clarification to one or more of your responses?” Use just ‘yes’ and ‘no’ as possible answers and look for more than fifty percent ‘yes’ responses. and the closing question for your survey.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Will you validate new members’ email addresses and/or phone numbers? Do they generate emails or push notifications? Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? Registration Do you plan to support Google Sign-In, Facebook Connect, or similar 3rd-party authentication?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2020

. “We are mourning this terrible loss and still searching for the words,” wrote Mattias Metternich, co-founder of Bryant’s grooming startup, Art of Sport , in an email. “As a founding partner to [Art of Sport] he was woven into the very fabric of our company and its vision and DNA.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 30, 2020

Email readers, continue here…] So, how do you regain that enthusiasm for what is best for you and for the company? Don’t let interruptions from emails, phone calls and people at the door interfere with this focused effort. It is where the fun is. There are a number of things you can and should do, and soon.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Customer support emails require both accurate information and a professional, helpful tone. Product descriptions and listings require tedious editing to make them engaging - especially after the fortieth one. An LLM can help fill in all these boxes, either directly, or by providing prompts, tips, and editing help.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 26, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] The answer coming from the best of breed in corporate personnel management is to form a trusted bond with each employee, helping that person to manage their career within and even preparing to follow our company experience. What happened to a job for life?

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2022

Email readers, continue here…]. Many times, it is a customer, an employee, or an industry conference that sparks the idea that drives you to create and express your vision of the future for your company or product line. Second: strategic thinking and planning.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 8, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] For lifestyle companies or later stage companies, board members should be paid on a per-meeting basis in cash.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2023

Email readers, continue here…] Well, there are two problems here. The customers are happy and the company profitable. What’s not to like? The result of “profit only” thinking. The company dooms itself to a slow death over the passage of time as customers desert to newer products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2021

That means that people addicted to text messages, twitter, and email may be sending less than half the message, and receivers often misinterpret even that half. As well, email volume just continues to increase. This cultural icon is totally missing from text messages and emails. Palm-to-palm contact is important for sincerity.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

Investor-friendly clauses in agreement There are also clauses in many such investor documents that allow the investor to override the founder and force a sale of the company if a proposed sale is attractive to an investor for liquidity, even if the founder feels that there is much more potential if the business is not sold at the present time.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

Increasingly startups want access to our emails. Or Google employees have access to your email? Remember when Quora started publishing which articles you were reading to others ? Or when Facebook Beacon was publishing what you had purchased to others? This is a real startup problem. They want us to store our documents. Probably a bit.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 21, 2022

Owned media comes from the databases you own, such as your company’s web site, email newsletters, profiles in social media, or apps you have created requiring registration or download. But this new era of Internet advertising has given rise to two more forms you should know and use in addition to the two traditional types above.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

Along the way, we found ourselves constantly surprised by unanticipated applications that suddenly appeared and gained huge adoption across the Internet; this was the case with email, the World Wide Web, peer-to-peer file sharing, user generated content, Napster, YouTube, Instagram, social networking, etc.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Yes, Amazon is partially to blame. Since 1999, the U.S. manufacturing workforce is down twenty-eight percent, and the U.S. has lost 54,000 manufacturing businesses. In 1980, it took twenty-five jobs to produce a million dollars in manufacturing output. Today, that can be done with fewer than seven jobs.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Email readers, continue here…] Far too many companies have been created around a button on a feature, and not upon a solution to a need in answer to a void in the market. Or higher and higher levels with more purchased items for play? How does an investor react? Investors have seen this game before.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] It is the board, made up of individual members, that is responsible for the care and maintenance of the corporate person. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Maybe add your email to receive the next post delivered to your email box? The skills in each are quite distinct, the investment strategies are different yet the connective tissues between the best firms are strong. Still reading? The second half of this analysis coming soon!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Enterprise Sales – The very first thing a potential customer does when you email or call to set up a meeting is Google you. You can’t measure the retention benefits but I promise it exists. Just like negative press hurts. When they want to propose spending money with you their boss Google’s you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. they told you it was a great meeting but then they don’t respond to emails) DO NOT ASSUME it means they’re not engaged. Sometimes?—?best

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

Email readers, continue here…] …and always with clear wording on automatic loan extension if you are making progress but need additional time to meet the full set of goals. Do take loans from sophisticated investors only after you have tried everything to get them to purchase equity….

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Email users, continue here… ] That is the quandary which entrepreneurs face today in building models for new companies around a web presence. Revenue models became more important a measure than traffic, although market share was and still is an over-weighted part of the value of any Internet-based entity.

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