Scratch Entrepreneur

So you’ve got a million dollars that your looking to invest right?  It’s just sitting around in your side table or stuffed into the cushions on your couch but you know it should be invested somewhere so it can grow into two or three million.  You could invest in the stock market or real estate but that sounds so boring.  You want to invest in ideas, great ideas, and help them grow into a multi-billion dollar company like Amazon or Google.  If that’s your scenario, our guest today is the right guy to call.  Serial entrepreneur Mike Trotsky has started tech businesses, sold them, and connected hundreds of investors with opportunities to fund great tech ideas.  In our conversation, he breaks down the western frontier of investing into terms we can all understand.   Here’s an overview: How it all Started Mike went to college at Indiana University to be an audio engineer.  He and some friends started building online donation systems for political campaigns.  That business, called Worldview, grew and they became