From Recipe to Startup: Rajni Aneja, MS ’85, helps Food Companies connect with Cornell Researchers, and organizes the Cornell Food Hackathon

Rajni Aneja, MS ’85, helps Food Companies connect with Cornell Researchers, and organizes the Cornell Food Hackathon!! we chatted about:- how to start a startup in the food/beverage industry- the incredible resources at Cornell to help entrepreneurs- the amazing food hackathon, every student should participate(0:00) entrepreneurship in food industry (2:48) how to start a food business (7:00) financials of a food business (11:35) manufacturing and food safety (15:14) understanding the market (17:52) how it gets from manufacturing to customer (20:56) benchmarks to hit in a food business (23:13) build a portfolio of products (26:07) effect of glp-1s (28:56) the food hackathon is so amazing (32:35) students love the food hackathon (38:53) more entrepreneurship at Cornell (39:47) more professors become entrepreneurs (41:32) Rajni's path to food entrepreneurship (43:53) closing question