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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I often get asked which providers my companies use for their web-enabled selling, marketing, demos, training, etc. with customers or prospects. Here's the short list of the ones we have found to be the best: Small Session Desktop Sharing–want to do one click, screen sharing within up to 100 people? Inexpensively and easy to use? …
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Image via Wikipedia We can all use relief from stress, especially in the current economic environment. Acupressure is a quick tension reliever, according to researchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, who found it can reduce stress by up to 39%. For fast relief from tension, massage your hoku(the fleshy part between your thumb and index…
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Image via Wikipedia Jigsaw Data Corporation has a developed a unique company contact database offering, one that is continuously updated and enhanced by their current customer base. Jigsaw grows their product offering by sharing and trading their existing records for client and potential client contact databases. In early 2004, Jigsaw started with less than 100,000…
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Image via Wikipedia March 23rd was the anniversary of Patrick Henry's famous 1775 speech before the Virginia Assembly where he proclaimed the famous phrase "Give Me Liberty ,Or Give Me Death". In the speech, he proclaimed that war had already begun with England and that the only choice was whether to fight. He fired up…
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Image via Wikipedia What's going on here? For the third time in as many months, I am dealing with a board member who is trying to become CEO of one of my portfolio company. Note: these are all different companies. The wannabes are making blatant attempts to convince other board members that the current CEO is "incompetent", should be chucked…
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Image via Wikipedia A major issue facing web-enabled software start-ups is whether to target users or sellers as the primary source of revenue. Well, the gods have spoken to Google on this issue. It's the users, stupid. Google has shut down its expensive ($200+ million investment) adventure into aggregating unsold radio and newspaper ad inventory…
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"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses"Image via Wikipedia ——Henry Ford A few weeks ago, I Blogged about companies having to re-tune marketing for the our "new" (and recessionary) economy. Entrepreneurs also increasingly are asking me how best to understand whether the market wants their products, before they spend a lot…
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Image via Wikipedia CIO Magazine had an excellent article in December 2008 titled "Go Home" by Meridith Levinson.The article describes how Chorus, a successful software company focusing on health care providers, has no headquarters or leased office space. The driver for dumping their office space was that maintaining office space is expensive and that telecommuting can save money…
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Image via Wikipedia A common problem among young start ups is "keeping the sheep in the corral". No, not the sheep on the right, but all the key players one needs to create a successful company–potential investors, board members, advisers, employees, among others. This can be a real problem for founders, one that keeps them up and…
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Image via Wikipedia So you are a struggling entrepreneur, with a great product, but cannot afford a PR firm to help you search out opportunities to get your ideas in front of target audiences. In the past, it would be up to you to get in touch with industry and trade publications, seeking to speak…
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