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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local food madness (Photo credit: Mike Gogulski) Well, I admit it, this is not really a supply chain company, but Freight Farms does solve a problem–recycling those old ocean containers who blot our landscape into urban vegetable farms. Take one well used 40 foot container, add plastic-and-foam growing channels on the walls, an irrigation system on…
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Image via Wikipedia Talk about thinking inside the box….and check out Dekalb Marketplace in Brooklyn to see stores in shipping containers… According to Xconomy's Curt Woodward, you might not think of a grocery store inside a recycled shipping container as a technology-centric startup. But without some cheap, powerful devices and software, Web-enabled crowdfunding, and tech…
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Image via CrunchBase According to Xconomy, just a decade ago, if you wanted to invest in a start up you had to know someone. A lawyer, an accountant or a friend of friend would give you a referral to a company looking to raise money, or they’d invite you to invest with them. That’s how…
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According to Mark Boslet at PeHUB, Right Side Capital Management is pushing ahead with a pioneering plan for no-pitch, high-volume angel and seed investing. The San Francisco firm intends to begin investing as early as the end of this year and late last month joined a syndicate of firms providing $24 million in funding to TechStars…
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Image via Wikipedia One of the most frequent complaints I get from my founders is the high cost of hiring business lawyers. It is not unusual to run up bills of $50,000+ before the first round of funding on basic legal work, such as setting up the corporation, allocating founder shares, etc, etc. We are…
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Image via CrunchBase According to a recent article in Venture Beat, just a decade ago, if you wanted to invest in a startup you had to know someone. A lawyer, an accountant, a friend of friend would give you a referral to a company looking to raise money, or they’d invite you to invest with them.…
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I am asked this question all the time by entrepreneurs trying to save a few bucks by not using a lawyer to set up their company and/or accept a first round of funding. My advise is to get a good start up lawyer (I use Gunderson et. al, and there are many others out there)…
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Image via Wikipedia Streetline Inc., a San Francisco-based developer of smart parking solutions, has raised $15 million in Series B funding. Fontinalis Partners and RockPort Capital Partners co-led the round, and were joined by return backer Sutter Hill Ventures. In my previous post on the company, my idea that the solution could be extended to make…
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Image via CrunchBase Urbanites, who yearn for instant gratification of all wants, from gum to a gourmet dinner, love services who promise to delivery just about anything available locally in about a hour. Urbanfetch, a now defunct start up in New York and London at the turn of the century, burned through $70 million and…
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Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson's best seller Venture Deals-Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist is the best book written so far on the subject of how an entrepreneur can survive the start up fund raising world with their dignity and perhaps their company intact. If you are an entrepreneur, or plan to be one,…
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