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 by Steve Rhodesvia Flickr One of the first "will I invest?" criteria I look for in a start-up business plan is how a new company plans to outfox/outplay/outmaneuver competitors. Surprisingly, it is often an area that is ignored, or detailed with a matrix showing the new offering to be far superior than anything on the…
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Image via Wikipedia My friend (and CEO of two of my portfolio companies-Vtrenz & Avenue Right), Brian Gramer pointed me to a very well written Blog on the process of raising venture capital. Based on the experience of the team at the Search Engine Optimization start up, seomoz, the Blog chronicles the mistakes, challenges, right things…
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Image via Wikipedia I admit that I initially read this book due to my great interest in wine. But I soon realized that it was really a great study in successful entrepreneur-ism under incredibly challenging conditions. The Widow Clicquot is the story of France's first Champagne empire, one created and ruled by an entrepreneurial woman who overcame…
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Image via CrunchBase No, I don't really Twitter. A few tweets a month. Perhaps more someday when I figure out what I want to say. I tend to be a late adopter of social networking unless it involves my family. But Twitter for business got me thinking about whether this phenomena will translate, like IM, cell phones…
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Image by Yodel Anecdotal via Flickr According to Xconomy reporters (and on whose reporting this particular Blog is based), entrepreneurs who slave to craft a perfectly-articulated business plan expect the effort will pay off with better odds of getting funded. But they’re probably fooling themselves. That’s the finding of a study conducted by two professors and a doctoral…
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Three years ago, I wrote a Blog on Dust Networks and the idea that one could know where their product was at all times using motes technology. Image by binuxvia Flickr Motes are still very much around and under development in a variety of industry settings, although a Google search on the subject yields mostly…
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Image via Wikipedia TED is a) a bunch of touchy feely do gooders and liberal environmentalist nuts, b) a force for good in the world, c) an elitist and very expensive invitation-only conference, or d) all of the above. Whatever one thinks of TED, they do come up with interesting "reminders" of what counts in…
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Image via Wikipedia One of the big problems companies have, especially start ups, is distinguishing themselves in the marketplace. For example, how can you best communicate the impact your technology can have in creating higher ROI and revenues for buyers? If you do not succeed here, you can have the best technology in the world and…
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Image by davemc500hats via Flickr Happy day after New Years…. Is it time to live up to those resolutions you made after a few glasses of bubbly? Like I really should do a better job running my business in 2010? Then this post may be for you. The Entrepreneurs' Organization is not for every entrepreneuer, in spite…
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Image via Wikipedia One of the big mistakes start up entrepreneurs make is hiring the wrong sales guy. Sales guys come in many flavors. Here are a few prime examples: Super Sales Guy—lone wolf; hunts off his LinkedIn/Rolodex connections; has the ability to sell really big deals by himself, sometimes oversells; often creates delivery issues…
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