Check out my newest article on Entrepreneur.com: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/280234

After being a bootstrapped company for more than ten years, it came as somewhat of a shock to find ourselves discussing the possibility of being acquired. It wasn’t so much the tiny boardroom in the middle of Utah where this conversation took place that was the foreign part, it was the situation all together. You… Continue reading →

Back in April I was lucky enough to be featured on WSJ talking about why I dropped out of college after two years. You can read more here: Wall Street Journal

Earlier this year at TrainSignal, we decided to increase our line of credit and so we started shopping around banks to see which bank would offer the best terms. We had been in business for over ten years (100% bootstrapped) and we’d grown from a one-man company to over 50 employees when we were acquired in… Continue reading →

The fact that the U.S. needs a site like DonorsChoose is quite embarrassing. Don’t get me wrong I love the site and am regularly supporting different projects, but it’s obvious that classrooms aren’t being funded enough by the government to give a quality education to all students across the country. DonorsChoose was started about ten… Continue reading →

With the start of 2012 I couldn’t wait to ring in the new year with one of the most overused terms of 2011, no not disruptive, not MVP, but pivot. I was thinking about some of the notable pivots of the year while driving and my mind drifted to the radio playing a song by… Continue reading →

The demand for talented developers is huge these days; it’s the equivalent of a nuclear physicist in the Cold War era. It’s a tech nuclear arms race with companies stockpiling talent, poaching away from other companies and my favorite, “no solicitation” agreements between companies to not steal away each other’s employees. So what kind of… Continue reading →

About a year ago I heard about an event happening in Washington D.C. called Summit Series. The event was described as “an invitation-only event that connects top young minds and inspires a new generation of leaders to succeed in business and in life.” I looked through the lineup and I was in absolute awe… Bill… Continue reading →