Dave Berkus

This book will help you to become a more agile manager, explore your management style, and give you a blueprint for personal and corporate growth. Dave Berkus and Kim Shepherd have each created and managed successful businesses with rapid growth. Dave has twice been an Inc.500 CEO; Kim three times an Inc.5000 CEO.

Extending the Runway is a must-read book for every entrepreneur, executive angel, and venture capitalist who now or has ever managed a fragile, growing young business. Authored by Dave Berkus, creator of BERKONOMICS, this book provides thoughtful material to help management and investors gain alignment at the board level upon issues of limited resource allocation toward and beyond breakeven. Berkus delves into issues revolving around optimal use of resources such as time, money, relationships, context knowledge and process understanding. He tells real stories of young businesses whose management fell into traps which could have been avoided, and how some extended their runways to make more efficient use of invested funds. Extending the Runway uses examples and stories from aviation to draw an analogy between trained, disciplined management in the cockpit compared to that in an often chaotic corporate world. This is an easy-reading but powerful text for C-level corporate planning.

What's so basic about entrepreneurism? How do you become a power entrepreneur? How much of it is in your genes and how much can be learned? This book is your resource for your life of entrepreneurism, from start to successful exit, supplying important insights into the entire process. This is the first in a series of BERKONOMICS books for entrepreneurs of all stages.

How do you start a business? What should you think about before and during the journey? This is one of a series of eight short, easy to read books from the Small Business Success Collection, containing actionable insights from Dave Berkus, nationally recognized successful entrepreneur, angel investor and board member, serving over forty companies. Dave tells stories of successes and failures - of strategies that worked, and those that didn't. He offers his insights for your business success based upon his many experiences. Reading this book, and others in the series, will make you a better visionary, manager, and leader! (Newly expanded second edition.)

How do you find the perfect niche for your product or service? How do you market it? What are the best ways to ensure growth of your business? This is one of a series of eight short, easy to read books from the Small Business Success Collection, containing actionable insights from Dave Berkus, nationally recognized successful entrepreneur, angel investor and board member, serving over forty companies. Dave tells stories of successes and failures - of strategies that worked, and those that didn't. He offers his insights for your business success based upon his many experiences. Reading this book, and others in the series, will make you a better visionary, manager, and leader! (Newly expanded second edition.)

How do you become a better manager? What are the most important things you should do to get the most from your work force? Can you operate a virtual office? What should you consider when hiring from competition? This is one of a series of eight short, easy to read books from the Small Business Success Collection, containing actionable insights from Dave Berkus, nationally recognized successful entrepreneur, angel investor and board member, serving over forty companies. Dave tells stories of successes and failures - of strategies that worked, and those that didn't. He offers his insights for your business success based upon his many experiences. Reading this book, and others in the series, will make you a better visionary, manager, and leader! (Newly expanded second edition.)

What should you do to protect your small business? How do you manage cash during growth? What are business bottlenecks and how do you fix them? What should I worry over as a manager? This is one of a series of eight short, easy to read books from the Small Business Success Collection, containing actionable insights from Dave Berkus, nationally recognized successful entrepreneur, angel investor and board member, serving over forty companies. Dave tells stories of successes and failures - of strategies that worked, and those that didn't. He offers his insights for your business success based upon his many experiences. Reading this book, and others in the series, will make you a better visionary, manager, and leader! (Newly revised second edition.)

How do you grow your business? What are the opportunities and threats? How can you manage better? What are management considerations I have not thought of? This is one of a series of eight short, easy to read books from the Small Business Success Collection, containing actionable insights from Dave Berkus, nationally recognized successful entrepreneur, angel investor and board member, serving over forty companies. Dave tells stories of successes and failures - of strategies that worked, and those that didn't. He offers his insights for your business success based upon his many experiences. Reading this book, and others in the series, will make you a better visionary, manager, and leader! (Newly expanded second edition.)

Do you need a board of directors for your small business? What can a board add to grow and protect your business? How do you pay a board? What are the risks? What advice should I give my board? This is one of a series of eight short, easy to read books from the Small Business Success Collection, containing actionable insights from Dave Berkus, nationally recognized successful entrepreneur, angel investor and board member, serving over forty companies. Dave tells stories of successes and failures - of strategies that worked, and those that didn't. He offers his insights for your business success based upon his many experiences. Reading this book, and others in the series, will make you a better visionary, manager, and leader! (Newly expanded second edition.)

When and how do you position for selling your share of a small business? How can you get a higher price? What do you do in advance? Do you hire an investment banker? What is the process? This is one of a series of eight short, easy to read books from the Small Business Success Collection, containing actionable insights from Dave Berkus, nationally recognized successful entrepreneur, angel investor and board member, serving over forty companies. Dave tells stories of successes and failures - of strategies that worked, and those that didn't. He offers his insights for your business success based upon his many experiences. Reading this book, and others in the series, will make you a better visionary, manager, and leader! (Newly expanded second edition.)

Advanced Berkonomics contains 101 bite-sized insights for entrepreneurs, business managers, venture capitalists, angel investors and board members. Each insight is a short, easy to read and memorable nugget of actionable advice. The subjects covered range from startup through sale of the business, and each is explored in ways not taught in business courses, even at the graduate level. With over fifty years of business management experience, Dave Berkus is a recognized expert in building great businesses as an entrepreneur, executive and early stage venture capitalist. His books, workshops and keynotes are popular around the world.

101 bite-sized lessions in building a business from ignition to liquidity event (start-up to sale) by Dave Berkus, an internationally recognized business expert, author and keynote speaker. Graduate with your degree in BERKONOMICS, and use these insights to drive your growth and business success. Use separate workbook to create your own personalized guide for corporate growth. www.berkonomics.com, www.berkus.com.

This workbook is to be used in conjunction with the book, "BERKONOMICS, Lessons From a Lifetime in 140 Characters or Less". It is designed as a personal journal for executives and board members of companies to use for creating their unique strategic, pricing and marketing plans while focusing on growth and preparing for an eventual liquidity event. Using the 101 insights from the Berkus book, this workbook asks questions of the reader to help organize strategic thinking at all levels of the organization, leading to a "graduate degree in BERKONOMICS."