2 Ideas for Improving the Distribution of Fresh, Local Food
When it comes to food, the buzzwords “fresh” and “local” dominate. About three-fourths of Americans, according to Gallup, actively try to consume more local foods.
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How Tenta Browser Built a Successful Subscription Business
In a Google-dominated world that even Microsoft couldn’t crack, is there an industry for niche browsers? Tenta has built a successful subscription business for a niche browser.
Mobile Business: Expanding Beyond Food Trucks
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Step-by-Step: How Ergonofis Established the Sit-Stand Desk Market in Canada
The name Ergonofis represents a hybrid between ergonomics and office. It fits: Co-founder Samuel Finn likes to think his company’s product, an adjustable desk allowing people to stand and sit throughout the day, provides the most efficient way to stay healthy and get through a work day.
How to Capitalize on the New Blue Collar Industry
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Cannabis Business: How Revelry Supply Became a Million-Dollar Brand
Sometimes you just want to keep other people from smelling your stuff. Enter Revelry Supply. Based in Santa Cruz, CA, the lifestyle cannabis business makes odor-absorbing luggage — duffels, backpacks, personal bags, etc. — aimed at cannabis users.
Longtime VC Stuart Rudick: ‘The biggest opportunity today is water’
Stuart Rudick, founding partner of the VC firm Mindfull Investors, has long been an early adopter. When he was bar mitzvahed at 13 his father asked him what he wanted to do with the $2k he had been gifted. “I said, ‘I want to invest it,’” Rudick recalls.
The Diversity Windfall
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Step-by-Step: How Design Firm GBPro Doubled Revenue to $448k within 4 Years
If you visited Seattle in the last couple years, you may have seen the wall-size posters of entrepreneurs featured throughout the Amazon Marketplace. They were commissioned by Amazon and designed by a company called GBPro.
9 Tips for Finding Product Market Fit
In the Trends Facebook group this week, subscriber Jay Wa discussed an app he is planning in the legal tech space that could provide “simple, legally-binding contracts on the fly.” But he wants to be sure he’s finding product market fit and asked the group for advice.