Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

These include election or re-election of board members if required by the bylaws of the corporation, approval of any increases to stock option plans (which would dilute the worth of shares outstanding,) and approve any additions to the capital stock authorized to be issued.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. .   And if they are built from the top down, they’re pretty much useless. [3] This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2024

The number of employees grows. And then company grows… Once the company hits high growth or larger size, it is logical to follow the standard practice in the creation of two standing committees composed of outside board members (not employees or executives) – the compensation committee and the audit committee.

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Berkonomics

MAY 26, 2010

They include an expense account, company car, profit sharing, 401k contributions, medical coverage for dependents, free life insurance, educational payments, extra vacation, relocation expenses, paid trips to industry association meetings, or a small override on revenue from new products developed under the candidate’s watch. .

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? How much equity should I grant to early employees? The second and third rounds of funding take additional shares of equity and dilute existing investors and founders. Should I take Angel or VC money?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] These include election or re-election of board members if required by the bylaws of the corporation, approval of any increases to stock option plans (which would dilute the worth of shares outstanding), and approve any additions to the capital stock authorized to be issued.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. I learned about revenue recognition.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It is a key factor in the success and prosperity of all businesses and nonprofits, regardless of their revenues. It directly affects your ability to sell, to fundraise, to hire the best employees, and to grow. If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

So a lot of agencies track revenue, some actually even track profit, but you, if we're gonna optimize, um, profitability, what, what should we be measuring? If you've got employees, if you've got a staff member that wants learn a marketing system, how to install that marketing system in your business, check it out. Like this show?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. But if you want to accelerate growth and improve your revenues and profits, you need to up your game. Email and customer feedback forms. This isn’t an issue you can afford to ignore.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

Hire smart, ambitious, get-it-done employees and lead them with emotionally intelligent innovation leadership skills. The single biggest reason that the average company struggles or even fails is due to their lack of focus and dilution of their greatest resource, which are people. Is a marketing plan important? Is high yield important?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

Hanging your hat on just one advantage that you can own completely is stronger than diluting your message across many advantages. Your employee's time is not free. See, we don't line our pockets with that revenue, we spend it making you maximally effective. Don't dilute your message. Your homepage becomes laser-focused.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This can be a convenient shortcut to separate someone’s status (founder) from their role (employee or contractor or advisor, etc.) An email would do. It can be deferred, with or without interest, to be paid after a financing or once revenues start coming in. of the fully-diluted capitalization of the company.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The number of employees grows. Once created, it is logical to follow the standard practice in the creation of two standing committees composed of outside board members (not employees or executives) – the compensation committee and the audit committee. Email readers continue here.]

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. The reason is that employees are investors too—oftheir time—and they want just as much to be able to cash out. Whatkind of anti-dilution protection do they want? Just go to their website and send them an email. They just want to invest in this startup.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. You can start by personally emailing them and saying thanks. I send DM’s, emails, all day thanking people.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You can sign up here – I donate all revenues to charity. You and I promised a lot to get this program going, so many employees, leaders, egos, teams were involved, it will be a big let-down. Then your second and third test fail or are underwhelming, and suddenly no one is taking your calls or replying to your emails.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And then how would you prompt other entrepreneurial leaders to think more broadly about stakeholders than even just investors, employees, customers, which tends to be the typical trifecta? We identified five, and the trifecta of employees, shareholders and customers, everyone has those, we also added two more. BC: Exactly, Reid.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And then how would you prompt other entrepreneurial leaders to think more broadly about stakeholders than even just investors, employees, customers, which tends to be the typical trifecta? We identified five, and the trifecta of employees, shareholders and customers, everyone has those, we also added two more. BC: Exactly, Reid.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Founded in 2015, revenue intelligence startup Gong is now valued at $7.25 They make those searches in places where their peers are: a Slack community, a Reddit channel, a Facebook group, a direct message, an email, or a Zoom. via a WhatsApp group chat or an email to a colleague) and are amplified by word-of-mouth. Around 77.5%

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. It’s designed for small and mid size companies and it all started based on a focus of the employees. Our slogan is, “We heart employees,” and everything that we do is designed around usability for the employees. Two, revenue.

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