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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Category: Venture Capital
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Image via Wikipedia Getting one's start up story into a few meaningful slides is terribly difficult but probably the most important job any fledging founder can undertake. Andy Swan posted his candidates for the six slides recently as a comment to Fred Wilson's Blog on how Union Square Ventures raised money with only a six…
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Automotive News has a fascinating article on the retirement of Bob Lutz from GMC after over 50 years in the auto industry. His appraisal of why GM failed is that they over intellectualized the business–five levels of design, five levels of production, too many smart people, not enough common sense. The article is required reading for…
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Image via Wikipedia Generally, more hair is best, except when it come to venture capital deals. "Hair on the deal" is a quaint expression used at venture partner meetings to denote when a potential investment is going south. It could be going south for many reasons, but when the phrase is uttered, it is generally curtains for…
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AngelList, started in February by angels Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi, vets dozens of deals before highlighting the best ones in emails each week sent free to a group of 200 investors. Messrs. Ravikant and Nivi—who also run Venture Hacks, a for-profit site that provides advice to start-ups—say they have received pitches from more than…
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Image via Wikipedia Bill Warner, Avid founder and long time innovation activist has recently published a manifesto on his blog setting the bar for the VC community. Declaring that we have too many singles and doubles, and not enough home runs, Bill is proposing we adopt a new nomenclature in our innovation economy. Here is…
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Image by Search Engine People Blog via Flickr One of the big issues I have with fledgling entrepreneurs is their inability to express their ideas in a simple story that anyone can understand. Plancruncher is an interesting tool that allows an entrepreneur to use some basic tools to condense their great ideas into a one page…
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Image via CrunchBase Waze offers driving directions based on crowd-sourced data. Unlike expensive alternatives, Waze is free and likely more reliable for many regions. I have traffic reports integrated with GPS-driven maps in my new car and it is far from correct, based on a number of recent trips to New York City. Trust me, you do not feel…
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Image via Wikipedia I rarely hear a bad idea when an entrepreneur presents their new, new thing to me. All sound very plausible, and make me interested in hearing more. But where the rubber hits the proverbial road–detailing their business model, or how are you going to monetize the idea–I am often disappointed. Please, budding entrepreneurs, just because…
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Image via Wikipedia I have been reviewing a lot of start up supply chain oriented business models in recent months that require major shifts in industry behavior to be successful. I don't mean business models like Amazon, which, for example, cut out the retailers and sell directly to consumers. One can easily see the potential…
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Image by psilver (silverph) via Flickr My good friend, Dan Dershem, CEO of LeanLogistics, related the following "technology adoption" story to me. Although his ten-year old daughter had been asking for a cell phone ("like all my friends have, Dad!"), Dan had been resisting her pleas. Perhaps changing tactics due to a friend's advice, she asked for…
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