A VC in Vacationland
Seeking the next gen supply chain technology breakthroughs
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Category: Supply Chain Innovators
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Fresh Vegetables Supply Chain, Assam Style! (Photo credit: Koshyk) Here is an interesting startup in Seattle, building tablet apps to better manage supply chain networks. In their own words, "We created Mercury to fix what was limiting suppliers, manufacturers and retailers. As we see it, all products and players in the supply chain need to…
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Image via CrunchBase According to TI Weekly, the vast Chinese e-retailing business, Alibaba has begun to develop its logistics infrastructure with the announcement of a joint venture called 'Cainiao Network Technology' (translated as 'Rookie Network Technology'), which in turn will manage the 'China Smart Logistics Network'. The new company will reportedly have a capitalisation of…
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Bloomingdale's (Photo credit: vpickering) In Charles Morris' excellent book, The Dawn of Innovation, he observes that "the 1866 Bloomingdale's catalog–160 pages containing 1,700 products from ladies' corsets to pistols–advised clients to send a follow-up inquiry if they had not received an order confirmation within ten days after they had posted the order, but to allow…
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.@jason's perspective during the boxbee.com presentation. #launch2013 #launchfestival (Photo credit: kate.gardiner) According to xconomy, the San Francisco-based Boxbee took home the best overall new startup award this year at the Launch Conference based on its plans to breathe new life into the messy offline world of urban storage. Simply put, the service aims to simplify…
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The M4 had opened all the way to Bristol in 1971 (Photo credit: brizzle born and bred) My good friend Adrian Gonzales had the following news item on Logistics Viewpoints. Interesting freeium model to penetrate the SMB routing marketplace? We'll see: Out of the UK, an interesting startup called Speedy Route launched a free, online…
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Image via CrunchBase According to Xconomy, San Diego’s EcoATM, which operates automated kiosks that enable consumers to recycle their mobile devices, says it has raised $40 million in debt financing from Boston’s Falcon Investment Advisors to expand beyond its existing network of 300 kiosks in 20 states. In the statement, EcoATM chairman and CEO Tom Tullie…
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English: City seal of Detroit, Michigan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to a recent article in Xconomy by Sarah Schmid, moving to on-demand bus services is the wave of the future, mimicing FedEx and UPS on package pickup. Here it is: "Gail Lanzon is clearly having the time of her life. Though she drives a school bus in tiny…
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A photochrom postcard published by the Detroit Photographic Company. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to Xconomy, Jenile Brooks was born in raised in Detroit, and she always knew that one day she’d be back. Brooks headed East after high school and eventually settled in New York City, where she was working as a film producer. It…
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New York-based Zipments, an online service platform for same-day delivery, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from the New York-based venture capital firm FirstMark Capital, the New York City Economic Development Council, and the Windquest Group of Grand Rapids, Mich. Here is the press release. Our society keeps wanting everything instanly, resulting in solid long term prospects for same…
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Image via CrunchBase PRESS RELEASEuShip.com, the largest and most trusted transportation marketplace, announced 20 December that it has closed an $18M round of Series C financing with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). Funds will primarily be used to extend the development, sales and marketing of uShip’s commercial freight platform, mobile platform and global presence.…
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