Agile VC

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The way forward includes not only advanced vehicles themselves but also potentially shifts in road infrastructure, laws and regulations, and even business models for “mobility.” But the way forward will undoubtedly require meaningful changes to some combination of the following: Vehicle Development.

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Technical Review Software Review Business Model Developer 186

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g. If you’re collaborating very closely with alpha customers, you may give away the product during initial development phases. But B2B startups need to take a different tack.

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Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

2) Be Willing to to Experiment – I described the risks of strategy drift in Part 1 , but often great VCs still display a willingness to experiment in their business model. Genentech of course pioneered what we now know as the biotech industry and KP made >200x on their investment.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

2) Design ethic vs engineers - Over the course of the last 5-10 years, many software-based startups are being built on competitive advantages of design and business model rather than technical differentiation. And many of these folks are drawn to working and living in urban centers.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Virtually every mobile payments system in the developed world (see note #3) just piggybacks off the credit card system. Systems like M-Pesa (see note #3 below) took off because in developing nations prepaid wireless minutes were a parallel currency, fungible for real money.

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