Michael Pollan is a genius wordsmith (and a fellow parenthetical commentator).  Rarely is the koala reduced to a “thimble-brained monophage.”  Nearing the end of his culinary exploration, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, I ran across the following, an apt description of the venture investor’s competing modalities:
Whenever they encounter a […]

To some, bootstrapping and venture capital are diametrically opposed.  Where’s the self-sufficience in a pile of outside money, after all?  In fact, the two startup approaches are eminently compatible, even complementary.  Naysayers, follow along.
I recently finished Greg Gianforte and Marcus Gibson’s Bootstrapping Your Business: Start and Grow a Successful Company with Almost No […]

E-commerce providers have a problem: they lose a significant percentage (some cite 75%) of customers that have made it to checkout. It’s shocking. A huge, stare-me-in-the-face, gaping opportunity that’s been acknowledged for a long time. Plenty of ancillary businesses recognize it and offer solutions, which beget another […]