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Note: none of the following is investment or money management advice. Talk to professionals about decisions you want to make!  I invest in startup companies with my time and money. This decision makes me an "angel investor." The usual definition is an indi... Read More

Your early customers do not look like your late customers. Use this to your advantage.  In his book Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore explains how a market adopts a technology. He observes that most phenomena are distributed on a Gaussian distribution - a "bell" ... Read More

The number one reason I hear people say they want to sell their business is burnout. They made something work, but now after a period of banging the head against a wall, they are tired. So they look for someone to buy it and take it over. Wanting “a good home” for it is the excuse I hear for not ... Read More

So often, the customers of a company can explain the behavior of the company itself. What market - or markets - does it serve? What are the characteristics of the participants of the market?  Investors are customers too. Investors buy equity, debt, and other instruments from the com... Read More

Small meetups can have big results.  The pandemic brought us the age of Zoom and, with it, the opportunity to connect intimately across vast distances. Online video meetups online create opportunities for more diverse audiences from all over the world t... Read More