Previously Published on LinkedIn By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker Why do some startups succeed, while others wind up in a death spiral? A recentBloombergBusiness article, “A Not-So Rosy Path to U.S. Expansion for Flower Delivery Startup BloomThat,” by Ellen Huet, provides an example of one of the most common reasons startups fizzle and fail. [...]

  Previously Published on LinkedIn By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker Most of us were brought up hearing the story about George Washington cutting down his father’s prize cherry tree and coming clean about it in a grand gesture of integrity and honesty. The point of the story is to set up and use a [...]

Previously Published on LinkedIn By Ed McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker With the recent downturn of some unicorn valuations and its potential effect on more than 150 unicorns worldwide, a face-off is brewing between investors who are first in line to get their payback and the holders of common stock, such as employees (or even founders), [...]