This article is an update to a series I began writing toward the end of 2020, called “How to launch a startup + brand + product in 100-days”. Almost a year ago I officially launched a shiny new startup and brand, called Plantfully Systems. The idea behind this upstart was…

It’s a relatively well-known known fact in the world of startup investing, while earliest investors in a startup, be they family, friends, or angel investors, take on the most risk, they’re often left with less favorable terms and totally diluted shares (i.e., equity) in later investment rounds due to the…

There’s long been a running debate, especially here in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley, about the value of an MBA. Namely, many startup entrepreneurs and even a few investors believe that the best business knowledge comes from actually starting and running a business; it’s the hard knocks that come…

I was speaking with a friend of mine today, who’s working on some really cool, creative art projects for large organizations. As a technologist and artist, she’s really interested in understanding the impacts of new technologies, like NFT, on art business models. …

At the beginning of last year (2020), in the throes of the global pandemic, I finished writing the book, Business Model Shifts: Six Ways to Create New Value For Customers, which at the time felt more or less complete in terms of the kinds of business model shifts people would…

There’s obviously a lot of hype around NFT, specifically because this technology provided creators with what Douglass Rushkoff smartly calls a “benevolent, and surveillance-free form of digital rights management”. …

While walking my dog yesterday, I was reminiscing about the last backpacking trip I took with a friend to the Trinity Alps, in Northern California. Not only was it a magical trip all around, but I got to witness firsthand the difference between home-cooked dehydrated meals and packaged backpacking meals…

From the beginning of time, people have used clothing as a way of showing who they are, what they believe in, and in some cases what socioeconomic group they associate with. However, starting with the automatic loom in the early 1800s and rippling through to the technology used for “fast…

It goes without saying, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies are long past the signal phase and fully into the trend phase. At this point, they are more than likely here to stay. But crypto — which I’ll use here as the synonym for anything blockchain-related — is also the wild west…