Lessons from Theranos… Trust and Fear

I have just finished reading Bad Blood by John Carreyrou, the detailed story of Theranos and its eccentric founder Elizabeth Holmes.  The story itself is as captivating as it is bewildering.  A remarkable and incredibly well researched account, it has a lot of lessons that should be clear to startups and

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Blockchain adventures

In mid 2017, we were presented with a problem and a solution.  How could we differentiate our start-up’s product and solve some of the problems we were faced with in the patent process?  The answer was exciting and interesting and came after substantial analysis: BLOCKCHAIN… Its easy to say things

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New adventures!

Its been another while since my last post, but I’d like to elaborate a little bit on what was motivating that post and what happened immediately after that post… In early 2017, my time at the National Restaurant Association came to end when I was asked to move to Chicago,

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