A VC in Vacationland
Seeking the next gen supply chain technology breakthroughs
recent posts
- The Role of Generative AI in Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- AI’s Impact on Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- The ‘New Normal’ is now the ‘No Normal’ in Supply Chains
- SRR—Sustainability, Resilience, Risk Management: The Latest Supply Chain Buzzwords & Investment Opportunities
- 3PLs–Investing in the Next Generation of Outsourced Supply Chain Solutions
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Category: Disappearing Supply Chains
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English: The NASA insignia. Español: Insignia de la NASA. Italiano: Logo della NASA. Русский: Логотип НАСА. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to Xconomy, NASA will transport 3D printers to space so astronauts can print tools — and potentially even food. NASA’s chief administrator Charles Bolden discussed the role of 3D printers during a recent press tour…
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According to the Wall Street Journal, HarperCollins Publishers will close two warehouses in the U.S., a sign of how the growth of digital books is prompting book publishers to rethink how they distribute print books. Harper will hand off warehousing and distribution services for all its titles in the U.S. to R.R. Donnelley & Sons…
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Image via CrunchBase On Demand Books, makers of the print-on-demand Espresso Book Machine, is expanding its footprint substantially in a partnership with Kodak that will integrate the Espresso technology with Kodak Picture Kiosks in stores such as CVS and other retail outlets.
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Image via CrunchBase The old days of going to the bookstore at the beginning of a semester and buying 20 pounds of expensive textbooks and supplements is fast disappearing. And with it is a complex and expensive supply chain. Although numerous textbook rental startups have emerged over the last five years, no major players have…
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Amazon-New-Detail-Page (Photo credit: kokogiak) Will publisher's relinguish control of book supply chains to Amazon? Of course, the technology already exists (and Amazon owns it) to print books at an Amazon fulfillment facility and send them off to customers, with the same delivery times as exist today. Using an industrial strength printer and a digital book…
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Image via Wikipedia We all fondly remember forking out hundreds, if not thousands for our college textbooks, including many we never really read (thank you, CliffsNotes). With basic tuition, plus room & board approaching $50K a year in many schools, it's no wonder that cost saving college options abound on the web. Renting your college…
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Image via Wikipedia About a decade ago, you could ride through many cities and towns in the U.S. and see numerous competing local and chain movie rental stores. Now, we are down to a handful, thanks to netflix, Redbox and digital downloads. How fast one type of supply chain can disappear and be replaced by…
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