Welcome to Eating Glass! It's a podcast where we ask startup founders the questions no one else will. Our goal? Reveal what it's actually like to start, scale, and exit a company. Hosted by Joe Lemay, who bootstrapped his reusable notebook company Rocketbook to a $50M exit and Will Nitze, Founder/CEO at IQBAR, a nutrition company he's taken to $40M+ in annual revenue.
Rooting for Pop Culture. Does anyone care to guess if early investors on Ollipop and / or Poppy have earned a return on their investment? They have grown revenue and have also grown spending tremendously. They also continue to raise / dilute investors.
It’s true that there are a lot of different groups of customers that brands can speak differently to because they look for different things. We’re seeing niche water brands come up & do well.
Lots of talk about differentiation here, and I feel like there’s a cheat code here. Uber and Netflix were clearly blue oceans concepts. But we only know that, because we can see their differentiation clearly from the outside. I believe you can experience the same blue ocean by innovating in fulfillment, or operational efficiency, or capital management. If you can provide a premium service or product, and you can do it at a far lower cost, you’re operating in a blue ocean.
Women can have that masculine energy at work but never bring it home. Men wont stay in a relationship if the woman wants to dominate unless hes a beta simp.
"It takes ten years to build a brand." Good stuff. Takes 5 years just to figure out how to build and scale a profitable business. Then get the right people on your team. Then it just takes time to get scale! What's the old saying? It always takes twice as long as you think it will and it'll cost twice as much.
