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Business Models

Revisiting What I Know About Intangibles & Startups

October 26, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

  This is the third post in my series of blog posts on economic moats. I have already written about Network Effects and Switching Costs. The remaining three sources of an economic moat are Cost Advantages, Efficient Scale, and Intangibles. ((Any errors in appropriately citing my sources are entirely mine. Let me know what you object […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Entrepreneurship, Funding, Innovation, Management, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: Brand, Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Due Diligence, Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Innovation, Intangibles, Intellectual Property, Investment Analysis, Margin of Safety, Persuasion, Strategy, Venture Capital

Notes on Strategy; Michael Porter’s Generic Competitive Strategies for Early Stage Tech Startups

August 21, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Running a business without a strategy is like breathing air without oxygen. My post Notes on Strategy; For Early Stage Technology Startups led to follow up questions from a handful of readers who asked for additional posts with more explanations and examples. ((Let me know if you feel I have failed to attribute something appropriately. Tell me how […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Management, Strategy, Technology Tagged With: Business Strategy, Competitive Strategy, Early Stage Startups, Strategy, Venture Capital

How Studying Bankruptcy And Working On Two Turnaround Assignments Prepared Me To Become An Early Stage Venture Capitalist

August 1, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

  When I started business school at NYU Stern in the fall of 2005 my plan centered on taking every class in Bankruptcy & Reorganization, and Distressed Investing that I could. I took 3 elective classes in that area; Bankruptcy & Reorganization with Prof. Ed Altman, Case Studies in Bankruptcy & Reorganization with Prof. Max […]

Filed Under: Behavioral Finance, Business Models, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation, Investment Analysis, Key Performance Metrics, Operations, Organizational Behavior, Private Equity, Sales and Marketing, Startups, Strategy, Team Building, Uncategorized, Value Investing, Venture Capital Tagged With: Behavioral Finance, Business Models, Business Strategy, Competitive Strategy, Early Stage, Early Stage Startups, Leadership, Management, Persuasion, Strategy, Turnaround, Venture Capital

Notes on Strategy; Where Does Disruption Come From?

July 19, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

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 […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, Innovation, Startups, Strategy, Technology, Uncategorized, Venture Capital Tagged With: Business Models, Disruptive Innovation, Early Stage Startups, Innovation, Long Read, Strategy, Technology, Value Creation, Venture Capital

Notes On Early Stage Technology Investing; Art, Science, or Both?

June 18, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Often when I have asked other people this question I get a response that leaves me feeling dissatisfied. It seems most investors are compelled to take one side over the other, and, at least as far as the admittedly small sample  of investors I have asked this question are concerned, insufficient thought is given to […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Innovation, Investing, Lab Notes, Lean Startup, Science, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: #InvestmentPhilosophy, #WorldView, Business Models, Early Stage Startups, Innovation, Investment Analysis, Long Read, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital

A Note on Developing and Testing Hypotheses

June 10, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

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. ((Let me know if you feel I have failed to attribute something appropriately. Tell […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Customer Development, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, How To, Innovation, Investing, Lean Startup, Startups, Venture Capital Tagged With: Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Early Stage Startups, Hypothesis Testing, Long Read, Probability, Statistics, Strategy, Venture Capital

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