Financial Insights from the Founder’s Desk
Real-world experience building, scaling, and exiting businesses. Not just theory.
DailyDime is where business meets your bank account. We publish across eleven core topics, from small business, startups, and personal finance to angel investing, private markets, and the economics behind the headlines.
The heart of it is helping entrepreneurs, business owners, investors, and everyday readers make smarter money decisions, whether that’s raising capital, reading a cap table, choosing accounting software, or figuring out a 529 plan. And we go wherever the money story leads: due diligence checklists, EBITDA add-backs, the national debt, the economics of the World Cup, how AI is rewriting entire industries.
Everything is grounded in real numbers and real experience: companies founded, scaled, and sold, plus 50+ angel checks written across fintech, SaaS, and consumer. No recycled advice, no filler, no jargon without a translation. Every piece is built to be read in minutes and used the same day.
That’s the dime: small investment, real return.
THE MISSION
We started DailyDime to make money and business easier to understand. After 20 years in the trenches building companies across insurtech, marketplaces, and consumer goods, I learned that the lessons that matter rarely come from textbooks. They come from making payroll, raising capital, hiring people, reading contracts, and surviving mistakes. DailyDime turns those experiences into practical, data-driven insights that help entrepreneurs, business owners, investors, and everyday readers make smarter decisions.
TRACK RECORD
Founder, PetInsuranceQuotes.com
Built the leading marketplace for pet insurance from the ground up and successfully led the company through its acquisition by Petco. Following the sale, I served as VP/GM of Pet Insurance at Petco for over three years, scaling operations within a major national corporation.
Co-Founder, Cloud Water Filters
Currently disrupting the consumer water filtration space with smart-home technology. This role keeps me at the forefront of D2C metrics, supply chain management, and growth capital.
Angel Investor
I have backed more than 50 startups, with a specific focus on consumer, fintech, insurtech, AI and SaaS. That concentration gives me a macro view of what separates businesses that scale from those that stall, and it’s the lens through which every DailyDime analysis is written.
Partner, NCT Ventures
I’ve been on the other side of the table. Was a general partner, responsible for fundraising, deal-flow, investment and strategic operations. Lead the investments in Embrace Pet Insurance, Seamless Logistics and GotCast.
EDUCATION
- MBA – The Ohio State University, Max M. Fisher College of Business
- B.S. – Miami University
Publications
- The Keri Croft Show – Why Most Entrepreneurs Never Actually Start
- Columbus Business First — PetInsuranceQuotes acquisition
- Crain’s Cleveland Business – Embrace Pet Insurance secures $2.1 million in financing
- Petco Corporate — Pet Insurance Marketplace announcement
- PR Newswire — Cloud Brings Water Filtration to the Smart Home
- Today’s Veterinary Business – Petco Buys Pet Insurance Information Website
- Business Interviews – If Your Pet Needs $10,000 Life-Saving Surgery, You’ll be Glad You Have Pet Insurance
- imensch – Nick Braun – Founder of Pet Insurance Quotes
- BusinessCollective – Meet Nick Braun, Founder PetInsuranceQuotes.com
- Three Questions Newsletter – Three qustions with… Nick Braun
EDITORIAL STANDARD
Every article on DailyDime is rooted in first-hand experience and rigorous data analysis. We don’t just report on the news – we analyze how economic shifts, from CPI changes to new tax laws, impact the bottom line for small business owners and families.
CONNECT
Shoot me an email: nick@dailydime.com