The really nice thing about starting from zero — with terrible credit, no money, no home, and no direction — is that I can do whatever I want. I’m 44 years old and starting over. I don’t have any formal training or business education. The only knowledge I have comes from a lot of jobs in my past that gave me a decent clue on what not to do in a business. I’ve worked for terrible people and I’ve worked for really awesome people, and I thought if I start a business, it’d be just me — and again,...

The meandering path of a floundering founder