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Build a Competitor Profile for Clues to Delivering Better Value

Up and Running

Probably too many to count; beverage giant Coca Cola has a portfolio of more than 3,500 beverages: diet, regular, sparkling, still, fruit juice, fruit drinks, waters, sports and energy drinks, soy-based beverages, etc. A former client of mine was interested in the operational activities of a rival that served one of its customers.

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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs

Genuine VC

Portfolio construction favors early-round capital allocation vs. company life-cycle allocation. Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.). Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised.

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

Oregon 60
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Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 2 of 2)

Steve Blank

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. The threat is here it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. The threat is here; it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. This post offers a few days’ worth of thinking about what I saw. (If

Syria 120
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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

Up and Running

While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. Watch your finances.

Oregon 24
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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Haystack Portfolio Data. Well, that time has finally come. On the ground, I am seeing more hybrid solutions.