Note: A version of this article was first published on July 31, 2019 at Port Technology. The innovations required to reinvent global supply chains will not happen without collaboration. This article describes our experience facilitating such collaborations, starting in late 2017. In late 2016 and early 2017, I spent a lot of time studying trucking […]
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Where Will Technological Disruption in The Fashion Supply Chain Come From?
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on October 25, 2018 in Entrepreneurship, How and Why, Innovation, Investment Themes, Investment Thesis, Startups, Strategy, Supply Chain, Technology, Venture Capital
Originally published at www.refashiond.com on October 25, 2018. By Brian Laung Aoaeh and Lisa Morales-Hellebo Authors’ Note: This is the second in a series of six articles about problems and opportunities in global supply chains, with a focus on the fashion industry. In this article we focus on trying to learn how executives at fashion industry incumbents […]
#ChainReaction: Notes on Centralized, Decentralized, and Distributed Systems
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on February 18, 2018 in Computer Science, How and Why, Innovation, Organizational Behavior, Sociology, Startups, Strategy, Supply Chain, Technology, Venture Capital
This blog post is the first in a series of blog posts I will write as part of my effort to take an inventory of what I am learning about supply chains, digital tokens, and distributed ledger technologies. I expect these blog posts to be frustrating for most people to read because I suspect they […]
Economic Moats – For Early-Stage Tech Startups (Presentation)
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on July 28, 2016 in Business Models, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, Innovation, Startups, Strategy, Technology, Uncategorized, Venture Capital
This presentation distills the essence of the following blog posts into a presentation format. The target audience is early-stage startup founders, and investors. Economic Moats Blog Post Series Network Effects Switching Costs Intangibles Efficient Scale, and Cost Advantages Connecting The Dots #OpposingViewpoints: Do Economic Moats Happen By Accident?
#NotesOnTactics: Relationship Management Hacks For First-Time Early Stage Tech Startup Founders
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on July 23, 2016 in Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Innovation, Operations, Pitching, Startups, Venture Capital
Note: I published a post titled “Relationship Management for Your Startup” on January 13, 2014 at Tekedia.com. This post is inspired by that one, and portions of this post are exactly identical to the original. It appears the post at Tekedia is no longer online. This post updates that one, with lessons I have learned […]
Notes on Strategy; Where Does Disruption Come From?
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on July 19, 2015 in Business Models, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, Innovation, Startups, Strategy, Technology, Uncategorized, Venture Capital
Marc Andreessen’s brilliant explanation of @claychristensen‘s disruptive innovation theory in 15 tweets: pic.twitter.com/3ic1teQbRW — Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) June 24, 2015 Introduction You can imagine my surprise when I was browsing my Twitter feed one night last month and came across one of Marc Andreessen’s tweetstorms. This time he was tweeting about Clayton Christensen’s Theory of […]
6 Things I Have Learned About Building High-Performing Teams
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on June 29, 2015 in Critical Thinking, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, Management, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, Sociology, Strategy, Team Building, Venture Capital
I spend a lot of time thinking about teamwork; how teams function, how they operate, how they fail or succeed, and how the most successful teams make their success repeatable in the face of changing conditions. This post is my attempt to synthesize what I have learned so far.1 What is a team? For the purpose […]
A Note on Developing and Testing Hypotheses
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on June 10, 2015 in Business Models, Customer Development, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, How To, Innovation, Investing, Lean Startup, Startups, Venture Capital
This post is a continuation of the discussion I started in A Note On Startup Business Model Hypotheses. In this post I will describe how one might go about developing and testing a hypothesis about any aspect of a startup’s business model.1 I will use a fine-dining restaurant as a motivating example. To ensure we are […]
A Note on Startup Business Model Hypotheses
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on March 29, 2015 in Business Models, Customer Development, Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Innovation, Lean Startup, Long Read, Startups, Venture Capital
One of the observations I have arrived at over the course of meeting founders of early stage startups is that often it is not clear during our conversations if they have spent time examining the hypotheses that underlie the business model for the startup they are building. This post1 is my attempt to outline some […]
What Is Your Business Model?
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on February 1, 2015 in Business Models, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, Innovation, Long Read, Pitching, Uncategorized, Venture Capital
“It is a B2B2C business model.” is generally not what I am hoping to hear when I ask “What is your business model?” #BusinessModelGeneration — Brian Laung Aoaeh (@brianlaungaoaeh) February 2, 2015 Invariably, when I am meeting the founder of a startup for the first time to discuss the possibility that KEC Ventures might invest […]