We’re now about two weeks from The New York Supply Chain Meetup’s second event. The purpose of this post is to outline our plans for that event, and preview what we expect to do over the course of the first six months of 2018 . . . We’re still in the early days of building […]
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White Paper | Towards A Supply Chain Operating System
Note: This article does not necessarily reflect the opinion of KEC Ventures, or of other members of the KEC Ventures team. Supplying the world with nearly everything is an enormous and complex job: there are things to discuss. – Rose George (2013-08-13). Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, […]
User Manual: The Early Stage Startups I Want To Hear About Most in 2017 and 2018
About KEC Ventures We are a team of early-stage investors based in New York City. We invest in information technology startups that are pursuing business models with the potential to transform the way business is done in their market. In such startups, we invest in the first institutional Seed Round. Often, but not always, we […]
#NotesOnTactics: Relationship Management Hacks For First-Time Early Stage Tech Startup Founders
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 […]
#NotesOnStrategy: Mental Models About Demand, Supply, and Markets For Early Stage Technology Startups
Alternate Title: An Exhaustive Introductory Guide To Demand, Supply, and Price Theory; For First-Time Tech Startup Founders. To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. – Henry David Thoreau Introduction I am always surprised when I am speaking with founders and […]
The Path To Disaster: A Startup Is Not A Small Version of A Big Company – The Office Hours Remix
Note: This is a remix of The Path To Disaster: A Startup Is Not A Small Version of A Big Company, a blog post I wrote for publication at Tekedia on August 20, 2012. This remix is based on my experience meeting early stage startup founders in NYC since then. Each time I hold office […]