David Thompson knows the best strategy often is perseverance and dogged determination

By Matt Griffin , Associate Edior and Catalog Success

Greatest Business Challenges

Finding investors in the midst of the dot-com explosion turned into one of the biggest challenges he’d ever faced. He fought pressure from potential investors to call his new company HomeBistro.

com, because he saw it as a catalog-driven business.

“It was very difficult to raise money when I was the only employee, and the business was pretty much a three-ring binder with some debt,” says Thompson.