by Mike Goodrich | Feb 5, 2021 | 2020, 2021, Birmingham, Books and Resources, Business Lessons, COVID-19, Entrepreneurialism, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Start-Ups, Technology
For some reason, my reading habits changed during the pandemic. I certainly had more time, but that did not lend itself to me reading more business books. When the world is falling down around you and your days are spend in dread, do you really find comfort in a tech...
by Mike Goodrich | Jan 7, 2021 | 2021, Business Lessons, COVID-19, Entrepreneurialism, Start-Ups
No paradox in my life has been more stark than the current COVID-19 paradox: with the great relief of vaccines on the horizon, we’re seeing massive increases in the amount of casualties. The former inspires hope and a quick end; the latter, destruction and...
by Mike Goodrich | Dec 11, 2020 | 2020, Advising, Birmingham, Business Lessons, Entrepreneurialism, Financing, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Start-Ups
I came across an article recently that described the “entrepreneurial advisor complex.” While I unfortunately cannot find the article, it rightly bemoaned advisors who promise the moon but cannot deliver. Particularly egregious, according to the article, are...
by Mike Goodrich | Nov 27, 2020 | 2020, Books and Resources, Entrepreneurialism, Financing, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Social Capital and Social Entrepreneurialism, Social Capital Series, Start-Ups
For some of you close to me, SOCAP is a way-too-familiar refrain. SOCAP Global is an annual conference devoted to social capital or impact investing held in San Francisco. I love it and I talk about it often. When I first attended SOCAP in 2018, it was an eye-opening...
by Mike Goodrich | Sep 9, 2020 | 2020, Business Lessons, COVID-19, Entrepreneurialism
This essay has one symbolic animal, two analogies, and a couple of disparate themes. That’s allowable in essays in 2020. While my fear of bears came into focus with Night of the Grizzlies by Jack Olsen, I can actually trace its origin to an earlier time. When I was...
by Mike Goodrich | Aug 27, 2020 | 2020, COVID-19, Entrepreneurialism, Financing, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Social Capital and Social Entrepreneurialism, Start-Ups
In his essay released on April 18, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 Crisis, Marc Andreessen — famed venture capitalist and founder of Netscape — implored businesses, business people, and society to build great new things – in healthcare, in education, in...
