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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Zillabyte bills itself as “Pandora for sales leads.” Built off a database of wto billion pages and 11 million unique companies, Zillabyte’s engine helps businesses search for prospective customers. “The technology connects buyers and sellers more efficiently in the business-to-business space,” said founder and COO Roger Huffstetler in an interview at their booth. “I used…
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Right Whale (Photo credit: Joseph Wu Origami) In recent months,I have had two startups faced with the decision of deciding whether to take dumb money. No, not Uncle Frank's friends and family round check, although that one can be a problem as well, but mostly over bad feelings if the startup fails. No, I mean…
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English: John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Pixar and Academy Award winning director of, Toy Story, reviews the 550 films on the National Film Registry with These Amazing Shadows co-producer, Barbara Grandvoinet. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Charlie Rose recently did an interview with John Lasseter, a founder of Pixar (and summarized in the New York Times).…
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Cover via Amazon The Checklist, a 2007 article in the New Yorker, has become a must read in the start up community. Faced with the high degree of complexity needed to make a new company successful, entrepreneurs have turned to constructing elaborate check lists on how to manage growth. You can read the longer book,…
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Pirate (Photo credit: shindoverse) No, this has got nothing to do with the movie or the Pirates of Caribbean ride at Walt Disney World. But perhaps dead companies do tell tales. This post is all about what we can learn from failed start ups. Losing your focus–pivoting is a new start up sport. Done right…
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New Marketing Strategy (Photo credit: Intersection Consulting) An excellent article in Forbes by two of my favorite Golden Seeds members, Anita & Sheryl: When starting a company, it’s important to come up with a financial and business plan, a location (in RL or online) and a marketing strategy. Both Anita Brearton and Sheryl Schultz (more below)…
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Customers (Photo credit: Vinqui) My friend Adrian Gonzalez , founder of Logistics Viewpoints (one of the top sources of creative supply chain thinking today) reminded me of this excellent article every entrepreneur should read. It's 15 years old, but the messages ring true today. "In their July 1997 HBR article "Discovering New Points of Differentiation," Ian…
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Lama debating (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I attend a lot of Board meetings (for profit & non-profit), start up strategy sessions, internal company meetings, etc. etc. I am constantly amazed at how quickly many of these go off track. I find myself reminding everybody about the four key rules around making and implementing successful decisions. I…
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English: tape measure from Sweden. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) My grandfather was a carpenter, and a good one. Grandpa Anderson immigrated from Sweden when he was 16. He had no choice. The family needed money and he had to go to America to earn it. No matter he did not speak the language and had no…
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Aras Corp (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Image via CrunchBase According to a 24 September 2012 article by D.C. Dension in The Boston Globe, the profits from freemium business models lie in related support services. In its first seven years, Aras Corp. grew slowly, with a handful of sales people selling its proprietary software to manufacturing clients.…
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