Category: Food and technology

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Good Food Business Accelerator Fellows to Show Their Skills at April 27 Demo Day

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By Joel Blechman, FamilyFarmed When I tell people I’m the director of the Good Food Business Accelerator, which FamilyFarmed launched last fall, I’m frequently asked, “What does that mean?” Accelerators — which provide mentorship, networking opportunities, and other assistance to promising entrepreneurial businesses — compose a fast-rising sector that is promoting economic development in the Read more about Good Food Business Accelerator Fellows to Show Their Skills at April 27 Demo Day[…]

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Zero Percent: Startup Uses Technology to Reduce Food Waste and Hunger at the Same Time

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Sometimes inspiration comes to you in a laboratory or a conference room. Sometimes it comes in the shower. And sometimes — as was the case of Raj Karmani, founder of the Zero Percent startup that fights both food waste and hunger — it comes during a routine visit to a local bagel shop.

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Good Food Business Accelerator Fellows Have Diverse Interests But One Goal: Success

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There is plenty of diversity among the Fellows in FamilyFarmed’s new Good Food Business Accelerator program. But they share a drive to succeed a commitment to expand the Good Food movement.

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Crowdsourcing Ferments Financing — and Recipes — for Wisconsin’s MobCraft Brewery

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MobCraft, a start-up craft brewery in Madison, Wisconsin, has gotten some buzz lately because of their efforts at crowdfunding equity investment. But crowdsourcing has been integral to their operations — even their beer recipe development — since the get-go.

Enterpreneur panel at FamilyFarmed's Good Food Business Accelerator event

Good Food Business Accelerator’s Crowd-Pleasing Potential to Spur Growth

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The launch of FamilyFarmed’s Good Food Business Accelerator program drew a standing-room crowd to the spacious auditorium at 1871, the start-up incubator that is Chicago’s center of innovation.

Let’s Discuss: Does Food 2.0 Have a Place at the Table?

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The New York Times on Sunday (Aug. 24) ran an article titled “Rethinking Eating,” about “Food 2.0.” We at Good Food on Every Table hope you will share your opinions on Food 2.0 in the comments section to this story.