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Secrets for Success in Good and Turbulent Times

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Community, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, Technology, Venture Capital on October 14, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Over the past 40 years, I have learned and hopefully executed the characteristics for success, outlined below, in good and turbulent times.

1.  Have Ethics and Integrity – Be Dependable and Responsible

2.  Attitude – Always, Always be Positive

3.  Desire – Have the desire to do the Best You Can 

4.  Consistency – Be consistent in good times and challenging times

5.  Ability – Keep on learning- develop new skills – continue your education – listen and most important, it is OK to say “I don’t know” and “I need help”.

6. Take Action and Risks – Don’t be afraid to make mistakes- that is how you learn, that is how you grow

7. Communicate – Communicate – Communicate – People will tell you when to stop communicating and more important, keep interested parties in the loop and you will be respected by all.

8. Listen – one of the hardest things to do, however we all learn something and grow when we listen

9. Always focus on #1 above, nothing else matters.  Have ETHICS and INTEGRITY. Be DEPENDABLE and take RESPONSIBILITY for your actions.

In today’s Turbulent Times, hopefully the guidance above will provide a road to success, performance and happiness.

Best

Steve Gerbsman

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Analysts: Clean-Tech Startups Face Hurdles in Economic Scramble

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, tagged , , , on October 11, 2008| Leave a Comment »

For the last two years, with the economy collapsing all around it, the technology sector and Silicon Valley in particular have proven to be particularly resilient.

But that might not be the case forever. Sooner or later, as the economy contracts and everybody cuts spending, the companies that power Silicon Valley—the startups, venture capitalists, banks and big producers of technology—are bound to be affected.

“Black Sunday (a week ago) was really a watershed—we’ve crossed a Rubicon,” said Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley forecaster. “I think it will change everybody’s attitudes about deregulation, toward the landscape of risk and toward all these new-age investments—these derivatives and hedges.

“In the short term, people will be risk-averse. In the long term, it will make people get back to the basics,” said Saffo. “We have risk that people can understand—a startup that gets risk capital. They do well if they deliver something of value to the purchaser, not because of a complex mathematical formula living inside a computer.”

Click here for the full article

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iFund – 85% consumer applications

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Here is a quote from Matt Murphy KPCB in regards to their iFund and what focus it has.

“Matt Murphy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers: We are seeing at the iFund 15 percent enterprise, 85 percent consumer, with even distribution between social networking, games, communication and stuff like that. Right now they’re simple, lightweight, fun, easy to use — given that we’re only three months into this and six months since we launched the SDK, pretty good. Not bad revenue streams either. I’m most excited going forward about the next wave of more sophisticated applications.”

Read more at GigaOm here

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Apple’s App Store Is a Winner

Posted in Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , on September 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Here is a excellent article from BusinessWeek about Appstore from Apple.

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I was once an App Store skeptic. When Apple (AAPL) said it would use the iTunes online store to host a range of applications from third-party developers for its iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices, I doubted that this newcomer to wireless would get things right in the first go. Surely major cellular carriers would block outsiders’ data-hogging features. And would Apple really let indie coders tinker with its vaunted iPhone?

As I write this, I’m eating crow. After trying out Apple’s App Store for the past few weeks, I can say categorically that Apple has hit another home run. The App Store has truly unshackled the high-end cell phone.”

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Successful Date Certain M&A of “Business Unit and Intellectual Property”

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, tagged , , , , , on September 11, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Steven R. Gerbsman, Principal of Gerbsman Partners and Kenneth Hardesty, a member of Gerbsman Partners Board of Intellectual Capital, announced today their success in maximizing stakeholder value for a technology company that was a provider and distributor of high-value, rights managed high definition imagery for high definition televisions . Gerbsman Partners facilitated the sale of the business unit and associated Intellectual Property and assets. Due to market conditions, the venture capital-backed company made the strategic decision to maximize the value of the business unit and Intellectual Property.

Gerbsman Partners provided leadership to the company with:

  • Technology experience in developing the strategic action plans for maximizing value of the business unit, Intellectual Property and assets;
  • Proven domain expertise in maximizing the value of the business unit and Intellectual Property through a targeted and Date Certain M&A plan;
  • The ability to “Manage the Process” among potential Acquirers, Lawyers, Creditors Management and Advisors;
  • The proven ability to “Drive” toward successful closure for all parties at interest.

About Gerbsman Partners

Gerbsman Partners focuses on maximizing enterprise value for stakeholders and shareholders in under-performing, under-capitalized and under-valued companies and their Intellectual Property. In the past 60 months, Gerbsman Partners has been involved in maximizing value for 46 Technology and Life Science companies and their Intellectual Property and has restructured/terminated over $750 million of real estate executory contracts and equipment lease/sub-debt obligations. Since inception, Gerbsman Partners has been involved in over $2.2 billion of financings, restructurings and M&A transactions.

Gerbsman Partners has offices and strategic alliances in North America, Europe and Israel.

For more information, please contact Steven Gerbsman at steve@gerbsmanpartners.com

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