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: Marketing & Sales Innovators
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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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(Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to BusinessWeek (27 February 2012), when Patrick Collison began trying to sell Marc Andreessen on the need for a drop-dead simple way for website owners to accept credit cards, the venture capitalist and creator of the Netscape browser cut him off. “I know!” Andreessen said excitedly before launching into a story…
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Image via CrunchBase According to Xconomy, Alice.com, an e-commerce platform exclusively for household goods, received $3 million in funding from private Spanish investors. Instead of acting as a go-between for manufacturers and customers, Alice.com is a platform for companies to sell toilet paper, laundry detergent and everything else that makes your house needs directly to you. Companies such as…
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Sale.jpg (Photo credit: SteelCityHobbies) Roger Edward Jones, a good friend and insightful sales consultant just published a neat article on selling in low or no-growth markets. I'll share the up front summary–more on his website: "Over the past year or so, I've been getting a consistent message from leaders responsible for complex and big-ticket sales:…
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According to TechCrunch, Vivino helps you identify and locate your favorite antidote for future consumption. Use the Vivino app to take a photograph of any wine label. Vivino uses image recognition to match the label against its database of 450,000 wines and return you all the information available about the wine including, hopefully, where you can…
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Image via CrunchBase With the proliferation of Blogs, review sites, Twitter, and many other platforms to encourage complaining, watching out for your on-line reputation has become, well, a nightmare. Users get irritated over tiny imperfections and start tweeting that your site is slow, doesn't do what they want, or whatever. Add the extra vitriol that…
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According to a recent post in Xconomy, Silicon Valley, where everyone says he’s out to disrupt the status quo, the sales force is a surprisingly resilient institution, especially in enterprise software. Every two to four years, companies such as IBM and Oracle produce new versions of their flagship applications, then send out armies of salespeople to persuade customers…
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Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr I admit to being a bit skeptical, even after a second reading, of the Viral Loop marketing strategy as some universal rule for start up marketing. Adam Penenberg's best seller on the subject certainly has a lot of compelling stories about the "to use it, you have to spread…
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Image by wasme via Flickr Training new employees in company-specific processes and operations is a major task for any company, large or small. All sorts of on-line, mentoring and classroom options are available, but often require significant amounts of senior staff time and energy to monitor the results and ensure that the new employee is…
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Image via Wikipedia The EepyBird founders are viral marketing geniuses. Besides being great entertainment…think on-demand Mythbusters….EepyBird has used traditional media, especially TV (Early Show, CNN Webby Awards, Modern Marvels), to build a large web following. They do live performances, corporate events, video sponsorships, among other options as revenue producers to fund their crazy experiments in…
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