Few toy company founders begin their careers arguing cases in court, but Judd Zebersky is not a typical founder. He earned a JD from the University of Miami School of Law, opened his own firm, and then walked away to figure out how plastic is turned into the things children want most.In 1997,Judd Zebersky flew to China and embedded himself in manufacturing. He spent months in factories, learning production processes he had no prior exposure to....
The path from a solo prototype in Southeast Asia to a platform operating in more than fifty countries took Justin Fulcher the better part of a decade. He started building RingMD in Singapore in 2013, twenty-one years old and working on a product with no formal company structure behind it. Investors found the prototype and asked to get involved. Fulcher's advantage, when he stepped back to look at it, was that by the time he was raising capital,...
The conversation around ultra-high-net-worth wealth management has shifted. For decades, wealthy families competed for access to exclusive investment opportunities. Now, according to Michael Gold Westport, the scarcest resource is different: "Access to capital is no longer limited; access to good judgment is."Gold is the founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth, a Westport, Connecticut-based advisory practice focused on families with $20 million to...