It’s never been harder to be a fintech startup. Especially if you are a nonbank lender where your startup depends on banks and credit unions for...

For startups, pivoting is almost inevitable.  But the catalyst to pivot often comes in the form of bad news (or what seems like it). For my...

I didn’t initially set out to build a tech company.  As a content researcher and curator in the advertising space, clients would ask me for images...

Which would you prefer: a handful of big-check investors or an army of small-check investors? Depending on your circumstances, you may not have a choice. In...

Ever since Lawtrades took off, I’ve been sharing our deepest secrets.  That is, I’ve been tweeting the following four metrics on a monthly (sometimes quarterly) basis:...

If you ask a startup founder how they’re doing, chances are, they’ll say, “Great!” Founder are incentivized to project an image of confidence and security. Succeeding...

At the end of 2019, Lawtrades’s bank balance was down to $20k. People were getting value from our platform, but we were struggling to convert that...

Three years ago, my company (Lawtrades) almost went bankrupt. We’d failed to raise a Series A or generate any interest among VCs.  Last month, we closed...

The first half of 2021 produced 291 new unicorns — more than 2011-2015 combined. Unicorns, which are new companies valued at $1 billion or higher, were so named...