A VC in Vacationland
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- 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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Image via CrunchBase An interesting article by Brad Stone on July 10, 2013 in BusinessWeek. Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz has a favorite disaster. Its name was Webvan, and it operated for less than two years during the dot-com bust and burned through $375 million from its initial public offering before going out of business in 2001. So…
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It's a dirty little secret among on-line retailers that lots of inventory goes unsold, ages out, is returned, etc. Optoro to the rescue…this a nice niche business in supply chain and demand for its services will never disappear. Optoro, a provider of asset recovery software, has raised a $23.5 million round of funding led by…
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According to the Boston Business Journal, Weft, a startup which aims to become a "Waze for cargo" and has one of its co-founders in the Boston area, will be among those presenting at TechCrunch Disrupt's hardware alley in San Francisco on Wednesday. The company is building hardware sensors and software platform that aim to reduce costs…
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Image via CrunchBase According to VentureBeat, New Yorkers will soon have yet another way to get just about anything delivered to their door. Postmates, the local delivery startup that’s already made a name for itself in San Francisco and Seattle, is kicked off its New York City operations in June. So far, the company has…
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Image via CrunchBase According to VentureBeat, is the next big market in local delivery your neighborhood dry cleaner? Delivery.com seems to think so. The merchant delivery company has acquired Brinkmat, a service that lets people order laundry and dry cleaning services from local dry cleaners. Launched last year, New York-based Brinkmat fits well into Delivery.com’s…
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English: The NASA insignia. Español: Insignia de la NASA. Italiano: Logo della NASA. Русский: Логотип НАСА. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to Xconomy, NASA will transport 3D printers to space so astronauts can print tools — and potentially even food. NASA’s chief administrator Charles Bolden discussed the role of 3D printers during a recent press tour…
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Bicycle used by a restaurant deliveryman in NYC (IPhone picture, Amsterdam Avenue and 81st Street, May 8, 2008) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to VentureBeat, online food delivery is a competitive space, with numerous startups trying to edge out the competition. Foodpanda, based in Berlin, has raised $20 million to continue expanding its delivery service around the…
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It's the picture of Italian ice-cream in a shop of Rome, Italy (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to Xconomy, on-demand delivery startup Postmates has a sweet new promotion starting tomorrow to help you get through the summer heat in New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle. In honor of National Ice Cream Day this Sunday, Postmates wants…
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Image via CrunchBase Google wants to do to physical goods what it does with information: Get it to you fast. To that end, Google is working on a same-day shipping service dubbed ”Google Shipping Express, which will compete with services like Amazon Prime and eBay Now, TechCrunch reports. Besides being a data problem, same-day shipping is a…
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Image via CrunchBase According to TechCrunch, Google is stealthily preparing to launch an Amazon Prime competitor called “Google Shopping Express.” According to one source the service will be $10 or $15 cheaper than Amazon Prime, so $69 or $64 a year and offer same-day delivery from brick-and-mortar stores like Target, Walmart, Walgreens and Safeway (though no specifics…
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