Espresso Venture works two ways. It's a coffee business, plainly. It's also a venture with espresso energy: fast, concentrated, intense. The second reading is the more interesting one for a firm. A small fund, an accelerator, a studio, or an advisory that wants to signal speed and focus without using any of the exhausted vocabulary of venture naming. Espresso does that in one … [Read more...] about espressoventure.com
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serviceable.org
Serviceable has two meanings that pull in useful directions. It means fit for use, functional, good enough to do the job. It also means capable of being serviced, which is the repairability question that has become a genuine political and consumer issue. The repairability reading is the more interesting one now. Right-to-repair legislation has passed in several markets, … [Read more...] about serviceable.org
expansibility.com
Expansibility is the property of being able to expand. It's a real term in physics and materials science, describing how substances behave under heat and pressure, and it carries an obvious metaphorical use in business. That double life gives it range. A materials science company, an engineering consultancy, or a technical product on one side. A growth consultancy, a scaling … [Read more...] about expansibility.com
bootstrapping.org
Bootstrapping is the word for building a company without outside money, and it's become a genuine identity rather than just a funding status. There are conferences, communities, and a substantial body of founders who consider it the better path. The word also has a technical meaning, loading a system by its own effort, and a statistical one, resampling to estimate a … [Read more...] about bootstrapping.org