Entrepreneurs and innovators doing customer development interviews should always remember to peel back the onion. — If you’ve ever been in the consulting business, you know that the problem a client hires you for is usually not the problem the client actually has. Last week I had a call with a the founders of a venture that has been running successfully for a couple of years…

It’s been a stunning 48 hours, here in startup land. — This morning I got a phone call from a startup founder friend of mine, saying that all her cash at Silicon Valley Bank was frozen. She was panicked about how the hell she’s going to meet payroll on Monday. Another startup founder told me that he had just closed a…

New parents know that they’ll be up in the middle of the night, feeding and comforting their new little one. …

On Thursday this week, the 4thly Startup Accelerator will have Demo Day and seven innovative new startups from around the world will each give their 3–minute pitches to an audience of venture capitalists and other investors. You can join the livestream by registering here! …

Google processes over 1 billion health-related searches a day. That’s 70,000 searches a minute of people looking for health and medical information. An astonishing volume that creates a $2.4 billion health information market. And, as we found out during the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a distressing amount of misinformation on…

National Parks are treasured places, all over the world. And yet often the government agencies that run them lack the budget to promote tourism and offer resources to visitors. Nowhere is this more true than in the Northern Territory of Australia. Nearly 25% of the land is protected areas —…

Crowdfunding has been around for a long time. When a city sells bonds in order to finance a new bridge or a new tunnel, they are essentially crowdfunding the project. The city gets the new bridge and the investors who bought the bonds get a nice return on their investment. …

One of the best things about the internet revolution is the democratization of investment opportunities. Today, even a small investor can put a little money in stocks using Robinhood, get that advantages of tax loss harvesting with Wealthfront, and maybe even buy a little gold on Gilded. Twenty years ago…

Baby food is a big business — something like $50 billion worldwide. In North America alone, more than $4 billion annually is spent on infant formula. And that infant formula market is dominated by just two giant corporate conglomerates — Mead-Johnson and Abbott. …