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: Managing start-ups
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According to Mark Boslet at PeHUB, Right Side Capital Management is pushing ahead with a pioneering plan for no-pitch, high-volume angel and seed investing. The San Francisco firm intends to begin investing as early as the end of this year and late last month joined a syndicate of firms providing $24 million in funding to TechStars…
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Image via CrunchBase With the proliferation of Blogs, review sites, Twitter, and many other platforms to encourage complaining, watching out for your on-line reputation has become, well, a nightmare. Users get irritated over tiny imperfections and start tweeting that your site is slow, doesn't do what they want, or whatever. Add the extra vitriol that…
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Image via Wikipedia One of the most frequent complaints I get from my founders is the high cost of hiring business lawyers. It is not unusual to run up bills of $50,000+ before the first round of funding on basic legal work, such as setting up the corporation, allocating founder shares, etc, etc. We are…
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Image via CrunchBase According to a recent article in Venture Beat, just a decade ago, if you wanted to invest in a startup you had to know someone. A lawyer, an accountant, a friend of friend would give you a referral to a company looking to raise money, or they’d invite you to invest with them.…
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Image via Wikipedia Is it really worth reading a book on Warren Buffett's management style written by his daughter-in-law? The short answer is yes. Warren Buffett's Management Secrets is short, to the point and useful. Much of what drives Buffett's business success is common sense and the discipline to follow that common sense. Many of us…
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Image via Wikipedia Guy Kawasaki has had some brilliant insights into making start ups successful. The best one is from 2006 and was originally published in his Blog. Here is the short version: "If only I could get paid for answering the question, “How can I get people to evangelize my product?” I would be…
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I am asked this question all the time by entrepreneurs trying to save a few bucks by not using a lawyer to set up their company and/or accept a first round of funding. My advise is to get a good start up lawyer (I use Gunderson et. al, and there are many others out there)…
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Image via CrunchBase Thanks to Dharmesh Shah, a serial software entrepreneur and the founder and CTO of HubSpot for these insights: "If you have time to read one document on the topic of startup culture, you should read through the NetFlix “culture deck”. If you have time for two, read through the NetFlix deck…
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You need a name for your business? One iPhone developer put the task of naming his e-reader out to the crowd through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, and $27.50 and 500 responses later came up with the name iReadFast. That’s even cheaper than the Silicon Valley tradition of getting a few friends together with a few cases…
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Image via CrunchBase Google has spent a lot of time and money trying to figure out why managers at Google are successful. The results are in–and they are ingeniously simple. Be nice to people and spend a lot of time listening to your direct reports. These are good rules for any company, small or large,…
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