Jun 10
Summer’s underway and food entrepreneurs are rockin’ and rollin’. As such, I wanted to catch you up on a few things that some of the entrepreneurs that have been featured on this site currently have going on. Read more
If you’ve been toying with the idea of launching a Kickstarter or Indiegogo fundraising campaign for your business in the new year here are some interesting Kickstarter statistics to consider.
If part of your holiday plan is to ‘share the wealth’ with others*, have you thought about sharing with other small food businesses? Right now on Kickstarter there are a number of great food business-related projects for whom $10, $25, or $50 could make a big difference in reaching their goals. Read more
Jul 27
Luisa Alberto and Derek Castro believed that San Francisco needed more fresh juice. But with both of them working full-time already and limited financial resources how could they legitimately get their dream off the ground? From those constraints was born a pop-up juice bar funded, in part, through a Kickstarter crowd sourcing campaign. Read more
Last month, while Living The Dream Farm which was featured here was working hard to raise capital on Kickstarter, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that may change how crowdsourcing works. Read more
Nov 10
It’s easy to sometimes forget that small food businesses are not just made up of artisans that turn ingredients into finished products like jams, cakes, and catered meals. Small farmers are an integral part of our greater food community. The ingredients they create are the very life blood of many artisan food businesses. If the farmer didn’t pour his/her passion and energy into raising truly amazing ingredients then artisan producers would be hard-pressed to make their food stand out much from the Big Boys. So today, as promised, we are talking to a pair of food entrepreneurs who also happen to be farmers. Read more
Following up on yesterday’s article about crowd funding, here are some answers to frequently asked questions based on responses from several entrepreneurs and artists who have used sites like like Indiegogo and Kickstarter to raise funds for their projects. Read more
Starting and growing a small artisan food business takes a lot of things. You need passion, you need drive, you need energy, you need good recipes, and you need a solid business plan or strategy. But the fact of the matter is that you also need money. It’d be great if you didn’t but, despite what those late night infomercials promise, pretty much every business is going to need money at one point or another. How much money varies depending on the size, scope, and type of food business you’re starting (or growing), but it can still be a major hurdle for many people to overcome. If you don’t have personal or ‘friends and family’ money to invest in you business and, given how hard it is to get a small business loan these days, what options are left for you? Read more
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