Erik Rannala
Save America. Start A Company.
This post originally appeared in Forbes. America recently celebrated Memorial Day to honor military men and women who paid the ultimate price to secure and defend liberty. In a country...
Why More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup
This post originally appeared in TechCrunch. Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. It won’t. Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity...
Thriving As A Post-Coronavirus Startup
This post originally appeared in Forbes. Startups are uncertain, high-risk exercises under any circumstance. When investors make available capital, it’s possible to mitigate some of that risk by extending runway...
Understanding The Vertical SaaS Product Stack
If you’re thinking about launching a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, there are two different ways to approach the market. Horizontal SaaS: These companies aim to create a product that services a...
Founder Interview: Alex Canter, Co-founder and CEO, Ordermark
If Alex Canter’s last name sounds familiar, it’s because his family owns the iconic deli of the same name that has been serving up matzo ball soup and pastrami sandwiches...
5 Lessons for Startups from Edison’s Invention of the Phonograph
Real innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, a lesson that the famed inventor Thomas Edison understood better than most. Throughout his life, Edison revealed that great ideas come alive thanks...
How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions
Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing....
Blue Collar VC
Four years after founding and bootstrapping Mucker Capital, we are pleased to announce the close of a new $45 million fund, Mucker III. This is our third fund, which might...
Are Apps The New Gurus? The Rise Of Self-Help Tech
The way we do everything has been turned upside down: how we read, how we communicate, how we get from point A to point B, how we eat and how...
Learning From The OG iPod
If you want to build a multibillion-dollar consumer IoT company, copy the iPod – the original IoT thingy. Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you...