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Economic Moat

Notes On Strategy; What Can We Learn From Religious Leaders About Building Early-Stage Startup Culture?

September 3, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Alternative Working Title: Notes On Strategy; Engineering Your Early Stage Startup’s Culture For Longevity What it’s like to work for Amazon http://t.co/7Nw93JDqz0 — The New York Times (@nytimes) August 19, 2015 Replace Just 2 Words in the Times Amazon Article and Something Amazing Happens @TKspeakshttp://t.co/bk3Y7ZCLCE — Inc. (@Inc) August 21, 2015 The topic of culture has […]

Filed Under: Behavioral Finance, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, Sociology, Strategy, Team Building, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: Anthropology, Behavioral Finance, Culture, Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Long Read, Religion, Sociology, Team building, Teamwork, Venture Capital

Industry Study: Nanotechnology

July 12, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Note 1: This is an update of an article that I wrote on a whim in December 2006, while I was on a break from business school at NYU Stern. It was published without update at Tekedia in July, 2011. The announcement by IBM about its new 7nm chip prompted me to dig it up […]

Filed Under: Industry Study, Science, Technology Tagged With: Business Models, Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital

Notes on Strategy; For Early Stage Technology Startups

June 23, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Alternate Title: What Can 24’s Jack Bauer Teach a Tech Startup Founder About Strategy?  Running a business without a strategy is like breathing air without oxygen. The purpose of this blog post is to attempt to synthesize certain fundamental lessons on strategy that are relevant for anyone trying to build a business. ((Let me know […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Business Strategy, Competitive Strategy, DNFD Strategy Framework, Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Game Theory, Goals Grid, Innovation, Investment Analysis, Long Read, Network Effect, Operations, Porter's 5 Forces, Switching Costs, Technology, Value Creation, 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

Revisiting What I Know About Switching Costs & Startups

October 24, 2014 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Switching costs are another aspect of a startup’s business model that I pay attention to. Together with Network Effect, Intangibles, Cost Advantages, and Efficient Scale they form the source of economic moats. ((Any errors in appropriately citing my sources are entirely mine. Let me know what you object to, and how I might fix the […]

Filed Under: Business Models, How and Why, Innovation, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Long Read, Strategy, Switching Costs, Venture Capital

Question Everything; My Remarks At FOCUS100 2014

October 4, 2014 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Background: I gave these remarks at Digital Undivided’s FOCUS100 2014 Conference which was held between October 3rd and October 4th in New York City. A number of investors were invited to explain to the audience how they ought to pitch venture capitalists in order to win funding. Digital Undivided is a social enterprise that develops programs […]

Filed Under: Behavioral Finance, Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Investing, Pitching, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: Behavioral Finance, Conferences, Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Innovation, Investor meeting, Persuasion, Pitching, Presentations, Venture Capital

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