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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Image via Wikipedia We all fondly remember forking out hundreds, if not thousands for our college textbooks, including many we never really read (thank you, CliffsNotes). With basic tuition, plus room & board approaching $50K a year in many schools, it's no wonder that cost saving college options abound on the web. Renting your college…
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Image via CrunchBase According to TechCrunch, raising funds for a small business can be a daunting task for any fledgeling entrepreneur. Whether it be from friends and family or from the general public, finding investors, setting terms of the funding, assigning equity and filing compliance documents is a challenge. Enter ProFounder, a stealth startup that…
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Image via Wikipedia Calculating founder ownership shares as new funding is taken into a start up can be a tricky proposition. Here is a useful treatise by Jon Fisher in the subject: "In the beginning, the startup’s founders own 100 percent of the company. If the founders can raise their own funding and grow the company from…
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Image via Wikipedia Do you hate the idea of visiting your storage unit to get something? Then storagebymail is for you. You can ship boxes of “can’t part with” items to their warehouses and have them ship them back to you when you again need them. Here's how it works: You pack a box with, say 45 lbs. of goodies,…
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Image via Wikipedia "An opportunist is someone who meets the wolf at the door and shows up the next day in a fur coat" –Kemmons Wilson, as quoted in Half Luck, Half Brains: the Kemmons Wilson, Holiday Inn Story, by Robert Kerr. Kemmons Wilson gave new meaning to the word perseverance. A serial entrepreneur, with the…
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Image via Wikipedia I have a number of very smart friends who have made a lot of money in selling their companies. They do not want to go back and run a company, but just would like to help out start ups and possibly make a few bucks. Often, they end up get hit up…
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Image via Wikipedia In the mid 1970s, I spent some time in London, working with my Data Resources partners to build a European auto and transport consulting practice. It was an interesting time in the UK–industry competitiveness was at a new low, Margaret Thatcher had just become Leader of the Conservative Party, but not yet Prime Minister and the…
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Image by dbking via Flickr Anyone who has seen Tom Hanks in Apollo 13 will remember the mission commander Gene Krantz uttering this line as the Mission Control people in Houston were looking for a way to get the astronauts back to earth. It turns out that no one ever really said exactly that line in Mission Control. The…
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Image via Wikipedia In the past, start ups have often kept all core aspects of their business in house, preferring to directly control outcomes. While laudable, the model may not be cost-effective. Many companies in my portfolio and that I advise have outsourced development teams which code at much lower cost than in house teams. New options…
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Image via Wikipedia There are some simple rules to follow when out-licensing patents and/or intellectual property (IP) from another entrepreneur, university or patent holder: Take a Snapshot of the IP–business processes, technologies and products evolve over time, but the patent/IP associated with them should defined in a static space at one point in time, based on the original patent/IP descriptions.…
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