I'm featured as part of the MIT E-Center's 30 in 30, 30 second tidbits of entrepreneurial advice/inspiration that my friend Justin Adelson is putting together.
To summarize, Upward Mobility is my bootstrapped baby. It was an ugly baby, the type no VC would ever fund, and no credible entrepreneur would probably even try to take to one. But I believed in the business model and the economics I'd worked out, enough to bet on it. And it has worked out really well. Not being beholden to anyone lets me operate the way I like to operate...that is, do lots of consulting, create software products, and travel...
Here's the vid: (Yes, my office is kind of messy, but it has a lot of fun toys.)