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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business! Since both sets of my parents went through bankruptcy while I was a child, learning about how to manage money became almost an obsession of mine. Photo Credit: Terry Kasdan.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

We are still reeling from the first order of consequences of the pandemic, but we are also starting to see the second and third order effects, unemployment, hunger, mass bankruptcy, and the inequity and injustice of this crisis. One of these effects that we are just beginning to understand the magnitude of is unemployment.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

As a refresher, a convertible note is a loan that automatically converts into equity upon the closing of a Series A round of financing. Ressi, Wilson Sonsini and a top-tier accounting firm (which preferred not to be named) have been working on developing this set of documents for some time now, says Ressi. Crunchboard.

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