Entrepreneurs offer their life’s future earnings for an investment

A truism in the venture capital industry is that firms “invest in people,” not just great business ideas. So what if that premise was literally true? Three entrepreneurs are offering a share of their life’s income in exchange for cash upfront and have banded together to form the Thrust Fund, an online marketplace for such personal investments. Kjerstin Erickson, a 26-year-old Stanford graduate...