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In The Money: eCommerce, DTC, and CPG — 67 episodes

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This Founder is Living My Current DTC Entrepreneurial Dream

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Brand Is Not Branding, And Other Mistakes in Consumer

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Finding White Space and Scaling to 8-Figures in a Crowded Homewares Category

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Reaching Eight Figures by Doing the Unscalable Things First

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Engineering Adult Friendships to a Billion Dollar Business

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We Thought It Could Be a Modest $10M Business. We Were Very Wrong.

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The LinkedIn Message They Almost Ignored For Target Nationwide

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No Formula. No Co-Man. No Branding. Nationwide Whole Foods in Three Months.

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The Repeat Founder Who Learned to Focus On One Product that Actually Matters

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Product, Brand, Community: The Holy Trinity for Consumer Investing at Iris Ventures

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COVID Killed 90% of His Accounts. The Pivot That Followed Built an Eight-Figure Wine Brand

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I Pitched Target for Ten Years. Here's What Happened When They Said Yes

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Why Corporate VC Has a Bad Reputation And How Rich Is Different

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$10M Revenue. Two Employees. No VC.

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Why Growth Breaks Consumer Brands And How to Finance Through It

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The Hardware Startup Building the Operating System for Families

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$50M in Revenue With Just 7 Employees and The Minimum Viable Company

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Building an Apparel Brand Without Inventory

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The $5M PO Problem and How Retail Can Break Your Brand

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What 100+ Amazon Brands Taught Him, And What He Built Next

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Why European Brands Scale Differently

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Apparel Is Not a Venture Business

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Founder Quality Is Still the Gate

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Why Unit Economics Are the Real Signal of Product-Market Fit

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From TV Weatherman to Consumer Founder

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Distribution Is the Moat, How Freestyle Diapers is Winning

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From Crickets to Customers: Creating a New Pet Food Market

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The K-Shaped Economy and the New Rules of Consumer Investing

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How Better Forecasting Became Branch's Best Funding Round

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Velocity Over Vanity: How to Really Evaluate Food Brands

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The Hard Truth About Growth When the Wind Isn’t at Your Back

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Capital, Category Creation & Where Smart Money Is Moving in Consumer

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Greg Davidson on Capital Discipline, Channel Strategy & Scaling Smarter

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The New Consumer Landscape: Capital Cycles, Moats & Market Reality

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Bootstrapped, Profitable, and Growing, Bushbalm’s Playbook for Sustainable Success

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Inside the Playbook: Financing DTC and CPG Brands Through Rosenthal’s Asset-Based Lending Lens

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From Fads to Foundations: Amanda Schutzbank on the New Era of Consumer Investing

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From Frozen Bread to Fresh Profits: The Wildgrain Playbook for Lean, Durable Growth

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Focus, Moats, and the New Consumer Playbook with Drew Skolnik of KarpReilly

40

From Red Antler to Habitat: Building the Next Generation of Consumer Venture

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Every Point of Profit Cuts into Health: Kevin Lee on Scaling Immi Without Compromise

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From Overlevered to Profitable: How &Collar Turned Debt into Discipline

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Global eCommerce After De Minimis: Passport CEO on Tariffs and the Future of Cross-Border Brands

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From $0 to Mid–Eight Figures: Vital Plus and the Discipline Behind Explosive Growth

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Building Beyond Basics: Brian Berger on Scaling Mack Weldon in the New DTC Era

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Cracking the Ecommerce Equation, Jay Wright on Scaling DTC Brands Without the Black Box

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Inside True Beauty Ventures: What It Really Takes to Raise Capital in Beauty Wellness

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From Doris Dev to Canopy: Building Beauty’s Most Innovative Hardware Brand

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From Dang Foods to Sherwood Partners: Lessons in Building, Falling, and Restructuring Consumer Brands

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Inside the Process of Raising from a Consumer Brand Fund

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Tactics to Get Unstuck as a Mid-7-Figure Brand

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Navigating Fashionization and Deprescriptionization in Health and Wellness

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Building of a Digitally-Native Omnichannel CPG Hold Co

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Building Both a Living Product Moat and Brand Equity

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Why Better Product, Not Better Marketing, Wins in CPG

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Cutting Down to Find Product-Market-Fit and Doubling Down on Winners

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From DTC Drift to Focused, Profitable Growth with Italian Sneakers, Brand DNA, and Doing Less, Better.

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Leveraging Fandom and Community to Avoid the Meta Hamster-Wheel

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Navigating Investors Seed to Growth, Credit to Equity in CPG

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Building a Career in CPG as Founder, Investor, Executive, Acquirer with Matt Jung

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Crawl, Walk, Run of CPG Growth with Anna Whiteman

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Brands, Creators, Agencies, and AI with Shwinnabego

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The Power of Brand Focus and Niche Markets with Rob Fraser

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Why Product Focus Wins In the Long Run with Connor Wilson

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How to Increase LTV and Exit Value on DTC

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How to Win Beverage, DTC and Online

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Do eCommerce HoldCos Work