By Brian Laung Aoaeh and Lisa Morales-Hellebo Originally published at www.refashiond.com on October 14, 2018. Authors’ Note: This is the first in a series of six articles about problems and opportunities in global supply chains, with a focus on the fashion industry. This article frames the problem. The next article will delve into a historical analyses of […]
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Industry Study: Ocean Freight Shipping (#Startups)
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on February 8, 2017 in Entrepreneurship, Industry Study, Innovation, Investment Themes, Investment Thesis, Long Read, Market Study, Startups, Venture Capital
Co-author: John Azubuike (@jnazubuike), KEC Ventures. 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 […]
“Liking” Facebook’s Business Model – The #EconomicMoats Remix
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on March 10, 2016 in Business Models, Case Studies, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Intellectual Explorations, Startups, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital
Note: I published “Liking” Facebook’s Business Model on December 26, 20011 at Tekedia. This article updates that discussion by incorporating developments since then. It also folds in discussion of the economic moats that Facebook has developed around its business. Large segments of this article are exactly identical to the post that was published by Tekedia […]
Notes On Strategy; What Can We Learn From Religious Leaders About Building Early-Stage Startup Culture?
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on September 3, 2015 in Behavioral Finance, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, Sociology, Strategy, Team Building, Technology, Venture Capital
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 […]
Notes on Strategy; Where Does Disruption Come From?
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on July 19, 2015 in Business Models, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, Innovation, Startups, Strategy, Technology, Uncategorized, Venture Capital
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 […]
Recap: My 3 Days at #PowerMoves.NOLA 2015
I rarely like to travel; I hate having to go through security. I hate going to conferences. Most of the time I come away feeling I did not accomplish what I set out to accomplish. On Wednesday morning I left NYC on a JetBlue flight. I was heading to New Orleans for the 2nd annual […]
6 Things I Have Learned About Building High-Performing Teams
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on June 29, 2015 in Critical Thinking, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, Management, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, Sociology, Strategy, Team Building, Venture Capital
I spend a lot of time thinking about teamwork; how teams function, how they operate, how they fail or succeed, and how the most successful teams make their success repeatable in the face of changing conditions. This post is my attempt to synthesize what I have learned so far.1 What is a team? For the purpose […]
Notes on Strategy; For Early Stage Technology Startups
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.1 As part of […]
Notes On Early Stage Technology Investing; Art, Science, or Both?
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on June 18, 2015 in Business Models, Innovation, Investing, Lab Notes, Lean Startup, Science, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital
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 […]
A Note on Developing and Testing Hypotheses
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on June 10, 2015 in Business Models, Customer Development, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, How To, Innovation, Investing, Lean Startup, Startups, Venture Capital
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.1 I will use a fine-dining restaurant as a motivating example. To ensure we are […]