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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Image via Wikipedia Getting one's start up story into a few meaningful slides is terribly difficult but probably the most important job any fledging founder can undertake. Andy Swan posted his candidates for the six slides recently as a comment to Fred Wilson's Blog on how Union Square Ventures raised money with only a six…
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Automotive News has a fascinating article on the retirement of Bob Lutz from GMC after over 50 years in the auto industry. His appraisal of why GM failed is that they over intellectualized the business–five levels of design, five levels of production, too many smart people, not enough common sense. The article is required reading for…
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Image via Wikipedia Generally, more hair is best, except when it come to venture capital deals. "Hair on the deal" is a quaint expression used at venture partner meetings to denote when a potential investment is going south. It could be going south for many reasons, but when the phrase is uttered, it is generally curtains for…
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Image via Wikipedia Is Starbucks the last coffee shop in the world to offer free wi-fi? Probably not, but they are certainly very late to the game. Thus, it is hard to call them a marketing & sales innovator, in spite of their careful store designs, mood music choices and counter up sells. A number…
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Image via Wikipedia Bill Warner, Avid founder and long time innovation activist has recently published a manifesto on his blog setting the bar for the VC community. Declaring that we have too many singles and doubles, and not enough home runs, Bill is proposing we adopt a new nomenclature in our innovation economy. Here is…
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Image by Search Engine People Blog via Flickr One of the big issues I have with fledgling entrepreneurs is their inability to express their ideas in a simple story that anyone can understand. Plancruncher is an interesting tool that allows an entrepreneur to use some basic tools to condense their great ideas into a one page…
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Matt Blumberg, CEO of Return Path and Blogger at Only Once, wrote an excellent post of how to make the transition from a founder to running a medium-sized business. Check it out here: Only Once permalink.
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Image by renaissancechambaravia Flickr At Accenture, we did significant research on a company to ensure we understood how our proposed solutions could help improve their competitiveness in their industry. Teams of researchers were put to work for weeks to uncover all relevant facts from diverse data bases and analyst sources. As a result, our presentation…
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Image by Adventures in Librarianshipvia Flickr Anyone interested in a fascinating account of the (fictionalized, but real in many ways) lives of entrepreneurs should pick up a copy of the Pulitzer Prize winner, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. Set in the 1930's, Kavalier and Clay are two cousins, one with a…
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Image via Wikipedia I rarely hear a bad idea when an entrepreneur presents their new, new thing to me. All sound very plausible, and make me interested in hearing more. But where the rubber hits the proverbial road–detailing their business model, or how are you going to monetize the idea–I am often disappointed. Please, budding entrepreneurs, just because…
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