About the guest:

John E. Richards is an entrepreneur, venture investor, mentor, and educator.

His endeavors involve founding, operating, managing, selling, and investing in enterprises. Though he is a generalist, he mentors entrepreneurs frequently in software, Internet, mobile, blockchain, and consumer products.

Most recently, he founded and is managing partner of Startup Ignition Ventures, a pre-seed venture fund, a natural extension of his well-known Startup Ignition entrepreneur BootCamp.

Early in his career, he was president of a yellow pages publishing company and later created the first-ever online yellow pages that led to an initial public offering and a multi-billion-dollar valuation as part of InfoSpace, Inc.

He also served as Google Fiber’s Head of Operations when Google entered the Utah market. John  ...