The Care and Feeding of Stakeholders
[Originally published in the Fall 2017 issue of Artisan Spirit magazine.] In a prior article, I discussed the ways that smaller spirits businesses can solicit and receive equity investments from…
Thoughts on Spirits and the Laws that Govern them, Triple Distilled and Lovingly Aged
[Originally published in the Fall 2017 issue of Artisan Spirit magazine.] In a prior article, I discussed the ways that smaller spirits businesses can solicit and receive equity investments from…
As regular readers (or anyone involved in distilling anything that needs to be aged) already know, the hooch business has a bit of a cash-flow problem. Startup costs are substantial.…
The significant majority of DSPs in the U.S. are appropriately described as startup businesses. Now when I say a DSP is a “startup”, I don’t necessarily mean that it has…