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SF’s Full Harvest Bags $8.5M to Help Sell “Ugly and Surplus” Produce

Xconomy

The San Francisco-based startup was founded in 2016 with the goal of reducing food waste, especially the $20 billion in “ugly and surplus” produce that Full Harvest, citing U.S. Full Harvest raised $2 million in seed funding last year. Environmental Protection Agency data, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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6 Ways To Make You An Entrepreneur Before The Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Contributing to industry blogs, or starting your own, is an ideal way to express your positive values, and build a reputation that can save you later if your product stumbles, or you receive some negative challenges. The Internet, through pictures, sound, and text, sees everything, including the good, bad, and the ugly.

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Bio Roundup: Meldonium Slip, Kratom Crackdown, Zinc Fingers & More

Xconomy

The 2018 Winter Olympics will end soon, and we did not skate through these games without a performance-enhancing drug allegation rearing its ugly head. This time, the drug in question was meldonium (Mildronate), a product widely available over the counter in Russia and some Eastern European countries.

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You’re most vulnerable right after you win a deal

Both Sides of the Table

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it. Fred Wilson wrote on his blog this week about learning from failures here and quoted Obama’s speech from tonight: you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. I know it sounds ugly, but it happens.

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6 Keys To A Positive Online Presence And Reputation

Startup Professionals Musings

Add new blog content to your site on a regular basis. Blogging is an ideal way to express your positive values, show your expertise and establish yourself as an influencer. The Internet sees the good, the bad and the ugly.

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You’re Most Vulnerable in a Deal Right After You’ve Won

Both Sides of the Table

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it as a way to learn, improve and increase my win rates. I know it sounds ugly, but it happens. One of the things I learned from my “post-game analysis&# is that you’re most vulnerable right after you’ve won the deal. I won, that is, until I lost.

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Why VCs Should Stop Trying to be Perfect

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve spent the last couple of years trolling in ideas in healthcare information systems (back end, ugly, complicated) more than “quantified self” which I believe in but believe I have less proprietary knowledge or relationships and is now a crowded space. My friend Rob Go wrote the following comment on my last blog post.