My Desultory Blog

RichC | June 3, 2022

Over the years, I have backed a few smaller companies needing capital and pre-sales to expand their businesses. Before the days of online crowdfunding platforms such as Indiegogo and Kickstarter, I participated as an investor in two smaller Ohio local companies … one that landed a contract to fulfill candy for Disney World which need […]

Category: Advice, Financial, Innovation, Shopping, Technology | No Comments »
Tags: capital, elio, elio motors, funding, indiegogo, kickstarter, lures, magfast, mayfly, ordering, shipping, startup, tech friday, techfriday

RichC | May 6, 2021

Whoops … an interesting Throwback Thursday #TBT flashback and mistake on my part … I received an order for MayFly Lures that I posted back in 2018 and sold a few and then sold my entire inventory in one lump in 2019. Unfortunately I forgot to remove the original blog post and so received a […]

Category: Business, Marketing, Misc, Recreation, Shopping, TBT | No Comments »
Tags: ebay, fishing, inventory, lures, mayfly, paypal, selling, TBT

RichC | June 30, 2019

After spending a few days on Put In Bay last weekend, I knew there were a few May Flies around (sold all my MayFly lures) … but had no idea there were this many! Katelyn sent me a shocking link with a few social media photos (and radar) from where we park our car. Ugh […]

Category: Environment, Misc, Nature, News, Photos, Social Media, Tidbits | No Comments »
Tags: bugs, catawba, islands, lake erie, lovebugs, may fly, mayfly, ohio, put in bay

RichC | May 14, 2019

It has taken awhile, but someone who enjoys Walleye fishing decided they wanted all my MayFly Lures. He made me an offer and so decided to give him a “buy them all” price.  At least I’ve recovered most of my printing losses on this project from years ago and likely made a fisherman happy. He’ll […]

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Tags: cpp, fishing, lake erie, lures, may fly, mayfly, printing, walleye