Post Tagged with: "interview"
Zokos Aims to Feed Hunger for Real Life Interaction
Zokos is a new startup that aims to make it easier for people to connect in real life – over food- by reducing what they have identified as the “barriers to entertaining.” Last week, the Brooklyn-based startup launched their first tool, a platform designed to help hosts manage an event and share the costs with their guests
Digital Platform Helps a Garden Grow in the South Bronx
Meet Ying Guo founder of Growing Gardens Growing Kids, a pilot project in the South Bronx aimed at teaching kids how to grow fresh produce. Ying is currently leveraging a customizable website and social media support provided to her by Pando Projects to bring her idea to fruition.
Startup Lessons: Learning To Code While Building Airbnb of Food
Non-technical startup founders often struggle to find technical co-founders. Entrepreneur Emil Petrone has a solution: quit your job, leave your home for two months, and teach yourself how to code, which is exactly what he did last July. Now he’s building Housefed, the Airbnb of Food. Housefed hopes to allow people to find home cooked meals anywhere
Greenling’s Vision For the Future of Grocery Shopping
Meet Mason Arnold, Co-founder and CEO of Greenling, the first and largest fresh, organic and local grocery delivery service in Central Texas. Greenling is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing local food systems: distribution. They use technology to shorten the supply chain and make it easier for consumers to access fresh, local produce through the delivery of CSA-style boxes
EatDrink.It: Helping You Remember & Discover Great Meals
What kind of restaurant search experience do you look for? There is certainly no shortage of web-based restaurant social review and recommendation platforms. The first generation of these sites, such as Yelp and Chow, tend to focus on content heavy reviews. EatDrink.It, a newcomer to the scene, is trying its hand at using the Foursquare
Why I Write About Food: Creating Community
What does—or could, or even should—it mean to write about food today? I am honored to join more than 40 amazing writers in a conversation about this question as part of a multi-site discussion hosted by Food Editor Nicola Twilley, in honor of the re-launch of GOOD magazine’s food section. It’s funny, in a million
The Product Group Meetup: Jeremy Fisher on Dinevore
The Product Group Meetup: Jeremy Fisher on Dinevore from Food Tech Connect on Vimeo. The January Product Group Meetup featured Dinevore founder Jeremy Fisher. In this video, Fisher and the group discuss his approach to building dinevore.com. Fisher and members of the group offer really interesting insight into process, customer development, and usability experience. It was an all
CEO Brian Witlin On ShopWell & Their Data Driven Business Model
If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed that many of the startups I’ve interviewed are data-driven. Why? Because addressing even the seemingly most basic food system challenges, such as what to eat, requires the management of large amounts of data. I’ve spent the last eleven months speaking with people about ways t0
Studio Feast’s Datalicious Last Supper
“You’re about to die, what’s your last meal?” Since 2007, Studiofeast supper club founder Mike Lee has asked his mailing list subscribers to answer this question to get a better sense of who he’s cooking for. Four years and 1,200 responses later, Lee and the Studio Feast crew decided to mine that data as inspiration
Gourmet Live: Iterating A Recipe For Digital Content Success
Gourmet Magazine’s closure last year “presaged the death of magazines,” lamented Jeff Jarvis in a blog post about the end of the longest running food-magazine in the United States. As the social web increasingly democratizes publishing and empowers anyone to become both a producer and consumer of content, the media industry is scrambling to develop
Food Farm Connect: Building An Urban Agriculture Database
City dwellers around the country are finding creative ways to use their fire escapes, windows, backyards, and abandoned lots to grow food in the city. As the movement matures, decentralized networks and entrepreneurial ventures related to the production, processing, and distribution of food grown in the city have begun to sprout. These entrepreneurial ventures are
When I’m Mobile: Building Sustainable Mobile Restaurant Websites
Trying to navigate a restaurant’s site from my cellphone is often an annoying and time consuming experience. Which is why startups such as When I’m Mobile & Chompstack have developed tools to easily develop mobile based websites. When I’m Mobile is the brainchild of New Yorker Jonathan Thaler. I was immediately excited when I learned that Thaler’s first restaurant client is personal favorite of mine, Paulee Gee’s. In this interview Thaler shares insights into why mobile restaurant websites are important, the challenges restaurateurs face, and tips for building a mobile website
Pando Projects: Incubating Your Ideas & Empowering You To Change The World
“I see Pando as the first incubator for grassroots initiatives. We will support projects that can be carried out in less than 1 year for under $5,000, providing the project mentorship and online tools that people need to transform their ideas into action.” How often do you meet someone who wants to make your community project ideas happen?
Open Sourcing The Food+Tech Connect Business Plan
I am thrilled to introduce Christine Rico, my business and idea weaving advisor. Christine and I have been working together to take all of my ideas and the amazing people and opportunities coming my way, and build a cohesive business plan. I feel very fortunate to be working with her. So, I’ve decided to spread
Windowfarms R&D-I-Y: Lessons for Crowdsourcing Innovation & Incentivizing Engagement
Crowdsourcing innovation is all the rage these days. Large corporations like IBM, Nokia, and GE have all created web-based platforms to gather the wisdom of the masses. When I first became interested in open innovation, I was both encouraged and fascinated by the growing interest in collaboration. My initial reaction was- this is great! This
