Midwest entrepreneurs shouldn’t be afraid to think big

GUEST: In the summer of 2011, I cofounded a seed-funded internet company that operated within the death-care space. You could think of us as Yelp for Funeral Homes. Yes, really.
Given that we were first-time founders in a place like Cleveland, Ohio, my cofounder and I were always looking for opportunities to learn from other founders who were much further along. One of our investors introduced us to a well-known internet veteran who’d had a couple of successful exits in his past. He lived