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 I have been reviewing a lot of start up supply chain oriented business models in recent months that require major shifts in industry behavior to be successful. I don't mean business models like Amazon, which, for example, cut out the retailers and sell directly to consumers. One can easily see the potential…
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Image by psilver (silverph) via Flickr My good friend, Dan Dershem, CEO of LeanLogistics, related the following "technology adoption" story to me. Although his ten-year old daughter had been asking for a cell phone ("like all my friends have, Dad!"), Dan had been resisting her pleas. Perhaps changing tactics due to a friend's advice, she asked for…
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Image by Steve Rhodesvia Flickr One of the first "will I invest?" criteria I look for in a start-up business plan is how a new company plans to outfox/outplay/outmaneuver competitors. Surprisingly, it is often an area that is ignored, or detailed with a matrix showing the new offering to be far superior than anything on the…
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Image via Wikipedia My friend (and CEO of two of my portfolio companies-Vtrenz & Avenue Right), Brian Gramer pointed me to a very well written Blog on the process of raising venture capital. Based on the experience of the team at the Search Engine Optimization start up, seomoz, the Blog chronicles the mistakes, challenges, right things…
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Image via Wikipedia Finally…a real business model for the recycling business. TerraCycle has created a company that can actually provide the correct financial incentives across the waste stream to allow all participants to make money. In a nutshell, Terracycle pays for recyclable materials from companies, charities and schools, turns them into "cool" products and sells them for a…
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Image via Wikipedia I admit that I initially read this book due to my great interest in wine. But I soon realized that it was really a great study in successful entrepreneur-ism under incredibly challenging conditions. The Widow Clicquot is the story of France's first Champagne empire, one created and ruled by an entrepreneurial woman who overcame…
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Image via Wikipedia Videos are a great selling tool–as in a picture(or video) is worth a thousand words. But few start ups use videos to explain their solutions, to train clients on their solution, or to market to potential customers. One of the start ups I advise, GSGTelco, which provides software and outsourcing services to manage…
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Image by Yodel Anecdotal via Flickr According to Xconomy reporters (and on whose reporting this particular Blog is based), entrepreneurs who slave to craft a perfectly-articulated business plan expect the effort will pay off with better odds of getting funded. But they’re probably fooling themselves. That’s the finding of a study conducted by two professors and a doctoral…
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Image via Wikipedia TED is a) a bunch of touchy feely do gooders and liberal environmentalist nuts, b) a force for good in the world, c) an elitist and very expensive invitation-only conference, or d) all of the above. Whatever one thinks of TED, they do come up with interesting "reminders" of what counts in…
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Image by davemc500hats via Flickr Happy day after New Years…. Is it time to live up to those resolutions you made after a few glasses of bubbly? Like I really should do a better job running my business in 2010? Then this post may be for you. The Entrepreneurs' Organization is not for every entrepreneuer, in spite…
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