
The former consultant and venture investor built MarketDial to give brick-and-mortar retailers a cheaper question: what if we tested the idea before betting every store on it?
A pair of Salt Lake City founders - one ex-VC, one ex-McKinsey - built software that lets chains like Kum & Go, Dick's, and Woolworths test a store idea in a few dozen locations before betting the whole business on it. Then they took the incumbent to court.