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 […]
Tag Archives | Pitching
User Manual: The Early Stage Startups I Want To Hear About Most in 2017 and 2018
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on December 25, 2016 in Deal Flow, Investment Themes, Investment Thesis, Operations, Pitching, Startups, Strategy, Venture Capital
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 – Connecting The Dots
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on July 25, 2016 in Entrepreneurship, Startups, Strategy, Tactics, Technology, Venture Capital
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 […]
#NotesOnTactics: Relationship Management Hacks For First-Time Early Stage Tech Startup Founders
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on July 23, 2016 in Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Innovation, Operations, Pitching, Startups, Venture Capital
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 […]
A Note on Startup Business Model Hypotheses
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on March 29, 2015 in Business Models, Customer Development, Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Innovation, Lean Startup, Long Read, Startups, Venture Capital
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 post1 is my attempt to outline some […]
What Is Your Business Model?
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on February 1, 2015 in Business Models, Entrepreneurship, How and Why, Innovation, Long Read, Pitching, Uncategorized, Venture Capital
“It is a B2B2C business model.” is generally not what I am hoping to hear when I ask “What is your business model?” #BusinessModelGeneration — 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 […]
Question Everything; My Remarks At FOCUS100 2014
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on October 4, 2014 in Behavioral Finance, Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Investing, Pitching, Technology, Venture Capital
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 […]
The Most Important Thing A VC Needs To Know About Your Startup
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on February 12, 2014 in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Pitching, Venture Capital
Over the past 6 months I have been spending more time meeting many first time founders in New York City and elsewhere. One question has arisen over and over again. What are the most important things a venture capitalist wants to know about my start up in order to invest? I will attempt to answer […]
How an Investor’s Behavioral Traits Might Completely Derail Your Pitch – Part III
By Brian Laung Aoaeh on October 27, 2013 in Behavioral Finance, Long Read, Pitching, Venture Capital
This post continues the discussion about how behavioral psychology might affect the outcome of a meeting at which a startup team is pitching to a potential investor. You can get caught up by reading part I and part II. My goal is to offer some advice on how entrepreneurs pitching to early stage investors might prepare to […]
How an Investor’s Behavioral Traits Might Completely Derail Your Pitch – Part II
This post continues the discussion about how behavioral psychology might affect a pitch. You can get caught up by reading part I. My goal with this series is to offer some advice on how entrepreneurs pitching to early stage investors might prepare to mitigate the problems that might arise due to the behavioral traits of […]