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Progress Report | #TNYSCM Minimum Viable Launch – Building A Supply Chain Community

November 19, 2017 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

The New York #SupplyChain Meetup #01 – The Minimum Viable Launch November 16, 2017 On November 16, The New York Supply Chain Meetup reached an important milestone – we held our first event. This blog post will trace how we got here, and share some pictures from our minimum viable launch. We hope you’ll join […]

Filed Under: #TNYSCM, Communities, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Startups, Supply Chain, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: #TNYSCM, Digital Transformation, Early Stage Startups, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Logistics & Supply Chain, Logistics and Supply Chain, Ocean Freight Shipping, Pitching, Startups, Teamwork, Technology, The New York Supply Chain Meetup, Venture Capital

User Manual: The Early Stage Startups I Want To Hear About Most in 2017 and 2018

December 25, 2016 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

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 […]

Filed Under: Deal Flow, Investment Themes, Investment Thesis, Operations, Pitching, Startups, Strategy, Venture Capital Tagged With: Dealflow, Due Diligence, Early Stage Startups, Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, Pitching, Venture Capital

#NotesOnTactics: Relationship Management Hacks For First-Time Early Stage Tech Startup Founders – Connecting The Dots

July 25, 2016 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

The post in which I offered some suggestions about how a first-time founder might make the fundraising process more efficient and less frustrating raised some follow-up questions that were sent to me via email by a handful of founders who read the post over the weekend. We went back-and-forth over email, but I think it […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Startups, Strategy, Tactics, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: Early Stage Startups, Fundraising, Investor Relations, Persuasion, Pitching

#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

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

What Is Your Business Model?

February 1, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

“It is a B2B2C business model.” is generally not what I am hoping to hear when I ask “What is your business model?” #BusinessModelGeneration โ€” Brian Laung Aoaeh (@brianlaungaoaeh) February 2, 2015 Invariably, when I am meeting the founder of a startup for the first time to discuss the possibility that KEC Ventures might invest […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, Innovation, Long Read, Pitching, Uncategorized, Venture Capital Tagged With: Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Due Diligence, Early Stage Startups, Investor meeting, Long Read, Pitching, Value Creation, Venture Capital

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