Posts by category: Alignment
by Chris Kocher
IoT: Where is the money? – Part 3
In my previous articles on monetizing IoT, I described some of the key drivers of IoT, the 10 main IoT areas, the importance of ecosystems and the 4 Values Framework…
by Chris Kocher
IoT: Where is the money? – Part 2
In my previous article on monetizing IoT, I described some of the key drivers of the IoT, the 10 main IoT areas, the importance of ecosystems and major considerations for monetizing IoT…
by Chris Kocher
IoT: Where is the money? – Part 1
People may disagree on the number of devices that will be connected in the forming IoT world. However, there is no argument that the number is in the tens of billions over the next decade…
Why entrepreneurs and VCs are not always aligned
Entrepreneurs and VCs live on different planets and sometimes seem to be subject to different laws of physics. This “impedance mismatch” creates misalignments that…
The life and death of alignment
In July of this year, something pretty special happened in Ottawa, Illinois. On their 13th attempt, 164 skydivers jumped from 7 well choreographed aircraft…
Why alignment works — and the story behind our company name
There’s a beginning to everything, and this post is the beginning of our Blue Dots blog. When John Orcutt and I founded Blue Dots, …