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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Disruptive, real time technologies will enable new revolutions in supply chain strategies and management. The ability to design mobile enterprise capabilities into new business models is one of the most interesting. Al Delattre of Accenture first introduced many of the new supply chain design concepts around mobile enterprises in a presentation to the Stanford Global…
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My oldest grandson, Brandon(age 8) was fooling around with my wife’s computerized labeling machine–yes, she is a label junkie. He printed out the word SMILE, walked down to the front door of our house and pasted it at eye level so that anyone coming in the door would see it. It reminded me that everyone…
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Al Gore purportedly said this to his fellow Congressional colleagues recently after they congratulated him for winning the Best Documentary Academy Award for An Inconvenient Truth. Whether you believe his message or not, the guy is sure persistent in his quest, one he has been pursuing for almost two decades. In many ways, he reminds…
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Boy, the guys at MIT really do think in different dimensions than the rest of us supply chain geeks. Olivier de Weck, associate professor of aeronautics and astronomics and engineering systems (these genius’s also have longer titles than the rest of us) and David Simchi-Levi, professor of engineering systems and civil and environmental engineering, have…
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Fred Wilson, venture capital’s consummate Blogger had an interesting post on Why Early Investing is Less Risky than Later Stage Investing. Great post as far as you went, Fred, but in my book you missed the best part of early stage investing. To me, it’s the FUN of working with an early stage company–where failure…
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Last weekend was Maine Maple Sunday–a time to visit maple tree sugar bushes and their boiler houses to taste the latest incarnation of one of Maine’s tastiest products, maple syrup. You need to get an early start in the morning, as many of the farms serve a great breakfast–pancakes, maple syrup, homemade butter and sausage.…
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As my original post said a few months ago, LARTE’s are not a new Double Expresso drink at Starbucks, but rather Location Aware Real Time Enterprises. They are getting a lot of play in the VC Blogs of late, powered no doubt by the growing availability of GPSS/sensor/RFID and related data that can help companies…
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Many start ups think that "partnering with the Big Boys", whether large channel partners, consultants or complementary software providers, is a great way to make their business grow. This is true for some, but not for all start ups. Any such partnering requires significant effort and resources to generate sufficient leads to justify the investment. …
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In a previous Blog, Where are the Supply Chain Entrepreneurs?, I asked why so few business networks have been started. Business networks would let companies collaborate on line with their suppliers to find new ways of improving supply chain efficiencies. MetroHorse is a B2C network that lets businesses post their profiles, consumers to place bids…
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Zoom Systems provides automated robotic retail stores in high-traffic area, full of brand name products you want to buy. Why are they supply chain innovators? Well, the short story is that they bring the right products to the right place at the right time, but at a much lower cost than traditional manufacturer/distributor/store networks, and…
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