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Executive Briefing
What happened to Foxtrot?
Pouring one out for Chicago’s beloved convenience store startup after its sudden, unexpected closure. Also: A new CEO for Food52.
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Executive Briefing
The sketchy side of crowdfunding
Companies like Levels are asking consumers to invest — with a lot less information than VCs would demand.
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In Conversation
Funding consumer brands in 2023
Elly Truesdell, founder of New Fare Partners, on where she’s investing today, what’s changed, and how food startups can get ready for venture.
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Executive Briefing
Drink this NFT!
Using web3 to test the new Taika x FWB sparkling tea — and have a say in its future. Also: Cava’s Emma Chamberlain boost and Chipotle’s new venture fund.
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Executive Briefing
How consumer investors are thinking right now
Covid-19 is changing the calculus for deals. But everyone knows important businesses can be created right now.
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Executive Briefing
Kirsten Green helped make the direct to consumer boom happen. Here’s where she wants to invest today.
The Forerunner Ventures founder on where the consumer — and the opportunity — is going in 2020.
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Brands
Liquid Death’s founder explains his hardcore canned water startup
“We’re weird, and it’s a weird brand.”
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Follow the Money
Why there haven’t been more billion-dollar acquisitions for direct-to-consumer commerce startups
Three years after Dollar Shave Club’s big deal, it’s been an anomaly so far.
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