Reviews Are In: TTR Execs Are As Cool As the Other Side of the Pillow
With all due respect to Malcolm Gladwell, who's latest article in The New Yorker explores the nature of entrepreneurship, a lot of factors go into making a successful entrepreneur, not just the conservative vs. risk-taking approach that he contends. In fact, I was mulling over the nature of entrepreneurship over the weekend as I reported on TopTenReviews (TTR), an Ogden, Utah-based operator of product review websites. You can read my full story about the company raising an additional $1.5 million in funding on the Reuters website. In reporting about the work of CEO and founder Jerry Ropelato and President Stan Bassett, I heard from investors Mark Solon, managing partner of Highway 12 Ventures, and Bo Peabody, managing general partner of Village Ventures. To date, the two firms have invested $7 million in the company.
