By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker  Disruption is a dream come true for entrepreneurs who catch the market by surprise and interrupt the status quo. Forbes staff writer Caroline Howard says, “Disruption takes a left turn by literally uprooting and changing how we think, behave, do business, learn and go about our day-to-day.” Let’s explore [...]

  Michael Phelps   By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker  Startups founded on passion can miss the mark if they are not also established on the bedrock of distinctive competence - your set of proven skills, knowledge, and expertise. I bootstrapped multiple startups. The first one, USI, was founded using my distinctive competence [...]