There are a lot of important lessons about building a successful online marketplace that can be learned from our experience working with Zaarly to source 20 lbs of grass-fed beef c[...]
The difference is that today our technological progress is more focused on the flow on information as opposed to goods. It's not about moving hard goods faster or centralizing oper[...]
The restaurant and dish discovery app space is getting crowded. In fact, I won’t write about another app unless it is powered by some innovative technology or employs interes[...]
Lilly’s Table, a weekly subscription service that offers seasonal recipes and meal plans, is the brainchild of a former personal chef, Lilly Steirer. Her idea is very near and dea[...]
I am thrilled to announce the launch of Food+Tech Connect’s new service: The Food Tech Job Board. After months of personally connecting people, I’ve decided to make it [...]
Slow Money NYC's inaugural Entrepreneur Showcase and Resource Exchange featured ten entrepreneurs, including AgSquared, a farm management and planning platform. Watch their present[...]
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 your[...]
Interview with Kareem Shaya, Founder of Farmonic, a field management platform for sustainable farms. Shaya is a developer with no agricultural background, but recognizes the immens[...]
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 great[...]
Meet Jonathan Shapiro, Founder of the recently launched Grubster, a new iPhone application and website that allows you to search for recommendations on specific dishes at a restaur[...]
“We knew that the data contained in the stack of weekly circulars on our dining room table was valuable, but could be much more valuable if it were presented in a more useful[...]
Join us in creating SXSW’s first-ever virtual farm-to-table community and feast on a new future of food. Sign up here to receive an invite. Want to have your startup featured[...]
The Internet has allowed for a democratization of ‘the expert.’ Restaurants and consumers must contend with the newly empowered voices of authority, whose feedback gets[...]
powered by Fotopedia Two weeks ago Danielle asked me what I thought of entering the WE Media Pitch IT! Challenge. I took a quick look at the site and quipped “I don’t see a downsid[...]
We go online for restaurant recommendations, recipes, dating, networking, and finding activity or interest groups, among other things. As our world becomes increasingly social, a g[...]
“We also think that if people feel they can use the data for other purposes besides viewing it on Real Time Farms, they’ll be more likely to want to participate. It’s a win-w[...]
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 o[...]
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily and quickly find the exact recipe you want, based on your personal health profile and preferences? Yummly CEO and Founder David Feller[...]
Hamburgers Tonight!, originally uploaded by jamieanne. To develop revenues for a business plan you have to have a clear idea of the value proposition. Or, to put it simply: Who wil[...]
Everyday, food lovers from all over the world log on to the web in search of recipes. A growing number of sites, such as Food52 and Gourmet Live, are helping to democratize, person[...]
One glaring hole in the Food+Tech Business Model Canvas is, of course, revenue. The central issue for an online media platform (or any start-up business!) is how to monetize (ie, [...]
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[...]
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the largest event I had ever organized were dinner parties for 10 in my apartment. Then the Food+Tech Hackathon came along. With 12 days of lead ti[...]
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 bas[...]