Dave Berkus is recognized as a worldwide resource and public speaker on issues from entrepreneur and early stage investor success to corporate governance to the future of jobs. He is one of the nation's most prolific angel investors with over 200 early stage technology investments. Board member or chairman of over forty of these over the years, companies both private and public. Serves on a number of high profile non-profit boards as well. Author of fourteen books on early stage business-building, and in-demand speaker at national and international events sharing stories and wisdom related to entrepreneurs, building boards of directors, trends in technology and valuing young corporate enterprises.
His "Berkus Method" of valuing pre-revenue businesses has been used by over 1,000,000 entrepreneurs and early stage investors, and is recognized as an industry standard with more than 300,000 references to it in search engines worldwide. TEDx talk, "Smiling at Success; Laughing at Failure;" "Startup Masterclass" channel on Youtube, and Wikipedia profile all available at www.berkus.com, www.berkonomics.com, and www.daveberkus.com.
