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Announcing KEC Ventures’ Investment in Virgil Security℠, Inc.

October 12, 2016 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

I am excited to announce that KEC Ventures led Virgil Security’s $4.0 Million Series A round. Virgil, founded in May, 2014, is based in Manassas, Virginia. Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by software developers in organizations of all sizes in any industry. If your product is connected to […]

Filed Under: Funding, KEC Ventures Announcements Tagged With: Funding, Investments, KEC Ventures Announcements

Announcing KEC Ventures’ Investment in Navisens

August 26, 2016 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Note: This blog post was originally published on August 26, 2016, at KEC Ventures. I am excited to announce that KEC Ventures has made an investment in Navisens $2.6 Million seed round. Navisens is based in San Francisco, CA. Navisens develops a software-only location platform that operates indoors and outdoors without relying on infrastructure located on […]

Filed Under: Funding, KEC Ventures Announcements, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: Early Stage Startups, KEC Ventures Announcements, Venture Capital

#NotesOnTactics: Relationship Management Hacks For First-Time Early Stage Tech Startup Founders

July 23, 2016 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

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 […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Innovation, Operations, Pitching, Startups, Venture Capital Tagged With: #NotesOnTactics, #Remix, Early Stage Startups, Investor meeting, Investor Relations, Persuasion, Pitching, Venture Capital

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

A Note on Startup Business Model Hypotheses

March 29, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

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 post ((Any mistakes in quoting from my […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Customer Development, Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Innovation, Lean Startup, Long Read, Startups, Venture Capital Tagged With: Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Due Diligence, Early Stage Startups, Persuasion, Pitching, Venture Capital

Case Study: Fab – How Did That Happen?

November 27, 2014 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Recent reports in the press about the problems Fab is facing got me thinking about the lessons one might learn from its meteoric rise and spectacular crash. Professional investors always give this disclaimer; Past performance does not necessarily guarantee or predict future results. Similarly, Fab’s experience is not necessarily a precedent that will always be […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Case Studies, Entrepreneurship, Funding, Innovation, Venture Capital Tagged With: Business Models, Case Study, Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, How Did That, Strategy, Switching Costs, Venture Capital

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