Melissa Hartwig Urban, co-founder and CEO of Whole30, was the first guinea pig for her diet. “I was eating pretty healthy whole foods, I was exercising a ton: but what the Whole30 showed me in that first self-experiment were all the ways that I was using food to comfort, reward and punish myself, and to…
If there’s one industry that’s both very old and highly innovative, it’s food. We’ve been eating since before we could talk in more than grunts — but what we want to eat, and how and where we acquire food, continues to change rapidly. One company trying to balance that long history with the need to…
The way to the heart may indeed be through the stomach (metaphorically speaking), but a food entrepreneur’s path to success is less easily discernible. As previous guests like the JiMMYBAR! Guys have shown, trying to convince retailers and consumers to make shelf space for a new food product is a hard sell. Emily Griffith has…
We all know the feeling of wrapping up a morning workout and sprinting straight to the office. Grabbing a bagel on-the-go might be convenient, but a protein-packed smoothie is what you really need to power the day. Smoothie lovers, you’re in luck! Through it’s no cleanup, unique approach to nutrition, “Zenblen allows any…
Nick Hamburger is a good egg. At just 21, he’s whip smart ready to scale his healthy-snack startup into the next big food brand. Quevos is a snack chip made from egg whites. “It’s a combination of the words quick and huevo,” Nick says. “Spanglish for ‘quick huevos.’ Eggs on the go. They’re…
Tap that. Nick Anastasiades, Jonathan Elron, and Arik Gaisler’s company 2ndKitchen is also the second business they’ve started together. Their previous venture, SF-based “quintessential startup” RedPie, billed itself as the “Uber for pizza,” using a supply optimization model called “spread sourcing” to deliver pies in record time. It was a “quintessential startup,”…
“Work-life balance” is a buzz phrase we’ve heard for years, but how many of us actually achieve it? Ishan Daya, co-founder of Crafty, says that the next generation of office dwellers want something else: work-life integration. The smartest employers emphasize “the fluidity between life and work,” he says. “They want to create an…
Chowly, Inc. CEO Sterling Douglass joins Scott in-studio at WGN Radio to talking about Scott’s second-favorite thing after startups – food! You ever see those tablets at a restaurant that servers use to input orders? They’re clunky, slow, and annoying. Chowly eliminates the tablet middle-man and connects third-party platforms to POS systems.
Designer Craighton Berman launched Manual, a design studio celebrating the art of food and drink. Berman’s motto is take it slow, and his startup journey has been one of patience. He currently designs drink products that bring a meditative process to your morning coffee. Special Guest Showbiz Shelly joins Scott Kitun.
Scott talks to Brian Vogt about launching GoCleanLabel last year and his work at Brisan. Brian then discusses his work with other startup companies to better the food industry through thought.