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 One of the big mistakes start up entrepreneurs make is hiring the wrong sales guy. Sales guys come in many flavors. Here are a few prime examples: Super Sales Guy—lone wolf; hunts off his LinkedIn/Rolodex connections; has the ability to sell really big deals by himself, sometimes oversells; often creates delivery issues…
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Image by Getty Images via @daylife One of the difficult tasks entrepreneurs face is deciding how much to pay their people. I have seen wide discrepancies across start ups in the same geographic region around software engineer, developer and executive pay . Payscale, a Seattle based web site takes some of the anxiety out of making…
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Image via Wikipedia Billy Mays, here…. Well, not any longer, although his estate seems to think they can live off his residuals, since many of his ads still run. It's sad to think we won't have Billy around to flog the inventor's latest "product you cannot live without". But are you thinking Billy Mays may…
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Cover via Amazon I may be the last person in the business world to read John Kotter's Our Iceberg is Melting. I usually avoid parables and fables couched as business books. But I was asked to read the book as part of an ongoing transformation at one of the non-profits we consult with on a…
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Image via Wikipedia According to Xconomy, MIT is planning to launch a student-led online publication focused on entrepreneurship by the end of the year. The fledgling publication will be called the MIT Entrepreneurship Review (MITER) and will aim to serve as a resource for entrepreneurs and to raise the already high profile of the prestigious…
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Image via Wikipedia Chris Dixon has an excellent post on his Blog about on seed round funding and the deal terms which create the correct incentives for both investors and founders. Overall, I agree with his ideas, but founders should recognize the difficulty they may have in achieving these favorable terms in today's difficult funding…
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Image via CrunchBase StartUpHire, a Vienna, VA-based job board that specializes in advertising open positions at venture-backed start ups, is a great place to post that post funding job opportunity. http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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Image via Wikipedia Start ups often struggle with the hiring new talent. Lack of an in-house HR staff, no technology to manage the process and extended recruiting time frames due to a lack of processes all conspire to make the process more difficult than it need to be. But there is hope. Software company Jobscience…
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Image by juhansonin via Flickr 5 Reasons Your Business Plan Is In A Trash Can London Business School professor John Mullins says now is a great time to start a business. He writes in the WSJ: Costs are lower, and more talent is available, thanks to layoffs. Prospective clients are more likely to try a…
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Image via Wikipedia One of the big problems many start ups face is developing quality marketing collateral. At best, they may have a pretty good website, perhaps a brochure or two and, oh yea, numerous PowerPoint presentations. The problem is that the founders are not always able to do a live presentation or webinar for…
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