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#WorkInProgress: Why I Am Building An Early Stage Supply Chain Innovation & Technology Rolling Fund

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This week, March 11, 2021, marks the one year anniversary of the landmark declaration by the World Health Organization that established COVID19 as a pandemic. While the world has been wrestling with the disease outbreaks caused by SARS-CoV-2. My partner and I have been wrestling with our own personal challenge, one that in the context […]

#UserManual – Send Us All The Early-Stage Supply Chain Technology Startups

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Author’s Note: This blog post is an updated version of User Manual: The Early Stage Startups I Want To Hear About Most in 2016 and 2017 and User Manual: The Early Stage Startups I Want To Hear About Most in 2017 and 2018. Certain portions of this version may be exactly the same as in […]

Can Collaboration and Community Serve as Catalysts For Innovation in Supply Chain?

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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 […]

Our Trash Is Creating A Coming Supply Chain Crisis

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Note: A version of this story was first published on May 22, 2019, at FreightWaves. News reports about the 2019 Copenhagen Fashion Summit (May 15 — May 16, 2019) highlighted current efforts by the French government to encourage fashion companies to establish sustainability goals for the industry. French President, Emmanuel Macron, has appointed Francois-Henri Pinault, CEO […]

Is disruption finally underway in the freight brokerage industry?

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Note: A version of this story was first published on May 10, 2019, at FreightWaves. On April 25, Amazon announced that it was making an investment of $800 million to reduce delivery times, from two days to one, for members of Amazon Prime. The next day FreightWaves was first to report that, without any fanfare, Amazon […]