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#111 Twrl Milk Tea: Boba is the New Sprinkle & Twrling into Sprouts, Costco, & Pop Up Grocer

From turning down Shark Tank offers to raising $2.7 million for Nopalera with Sandra Velasquez (2023)

#110 Recapping Expo East 2023: The End of An Era

#109 The Third Annual Shelfies Awards Ceremony Live!

#108 Getting Discovered: How to Leverage RangeMe & RangeMe's Roots in Supporting Emerging Brands

How Liquid Death is Murdering Lame Marketing with Hamid Saify (2023)

#107 How to Turbocharge Your CX: DTC Marketing Learnings from Mr. Beast's Feastables on Chatbots, SMS, & Retention with Jess Cervellon

#106 Shelfies Finalists & Trends from Startup CPG's 2023 Awards

#105 Equity Crowdfunding Insights: How Ghost Town Oats is Cultivating Community & Opportunities with Ezra Baker

#104 How Project Potluck is Creating a More Inclusive, Equitable, and Colorful CPG Industry with Kathleen Casanova

#103 Reimagining Multivitamins: Tend's Real Food Supplements for Pregnancy and Beyond with Co-Founders Hannah & Behzad Varamini

#102 Beyond the Certificate: How to Navigate Insurance Related to Fundraising and Inventory with Amelia Risk

#101 Celebrating 10 Years of Growth: Family, Foodservice, and Forging your Own Path with Soom's Amy Zitelman

#100 Toasting to 100 Episodes of The Startup CPG Podcast with Our Favorite Moments

#99 Navigating the Foodservice Landscape: Key Players and Their Roles (Distributors, Buying Groups, Operators, & more)

#98 Reimagining Grocery Shopping: Instacart's AI-Powered Future with ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence

#97 Co-Packing 101: Tapping into a Motherlode of Co-Packing Wisdom

#96 How to Understand the Unit Economics of a CPG Company with Graphite Financial

#95 GT Dave - Founder & CEO of GT’s Living Foods: 25+ years of building the kombucha industry one batch at a time

#94 Buyer Series: Fostering good buyer vibes with Wade Yenny & Alex Bayer

#93 Creating a More Equitable & Transparent Food System with Amazi

Angel Investing 101 with Marcia Dawood (2022)

#92 Behind the Dream [Pie] Collaboration of Ben & Jerry’s and Partake Foods with Marlo Giudice

#91 Becoming the Willy Wonkas of Marshmallows with Funky Mello’s Delisa Harper

#90 Buyer Series: Earth Fare with Mitch Orland

An AWSM (Sauce) Bonus Episode with Carl Starkey

#89 Packaging Design and Printing 101 with Kirk & Kurtts

#88 Undaunted Leadership with Hint Founder Kara Goldin

#87 How Natural Shoppers are Responding to Inflation with Social Nature's Jessica Malach

#86 From Target Buyer to Nationally Launching Upcycled Pet Brand Shameless Pets with James Bello

#85 First Hire Series: Culture with Jennifer Yepez-Blundell (+ Tiny Sprouts)

#84 Legal Tips for Fundraising: Navigating SAFE Notes, Priced Rounds, Exits, & More (+ Balkan Bites)

#83 Trade Spend & Retail Promotions 101 with Jake Huber (+ Niramaya)

#82 Expo West 2023 Recap: Mushrooms, Mocktails, Mochi, and More

#81 Meet the Press: Behind the scenes on media publishing with Monica Watrous at Food Business News

#80 From turning down Shark Tank offers to raising $2.7 million for Nopalera with Sandra Velasquez

#79 First Hire Series: Behind the scenes on hiring with Sweet Nothings

Pure Gold Series: How to Prep for a Successful Expo West with Seth Goldman (2022)

Bonus: Raising the bar in the alcoholic beverage category with G’s Dry Hard Ginger Beer

#78 Forij adventures: meeting customers on land, air, sea, and online with Parker Olson

#77 Making a deal on Shark Tank with wildwonder's Rosa Li

#76 How Liquid Death is Murdering Lame Marketing with Hamid Saify

#75 Behind the Scenes of Equity Crowdfunding with tbh (+ Popadelics)

Shark Tank, Sea Moss, and an Ocean of Potential with Alexiou Gibson (2022)

#74 First Hire Series: Foodservice Sales with Jenna Cameron (+ For Good Granola)

How to Mind your Packaging, Branding, (and the Font) with Designer and Agency Owner Kirk Visola (2021)

#73 In-Store Demos 101: Building a Successful Demo Program (+ Funky Mello)

#72 How to Optimize the Deductions Management Process

#71 Building Content Creation Muscles - Behind Dream Pops’ Marketing with David Greenfeld (+ Nowhere Bakery)

#70 Angel Investing 101 with Marcia Dawood (+ Uproot Teas)

#69 How to Design a High Converting Ecommerce Website

#68 How to Raise $10 Million: Fundraising Aura Bora Style with Paul Voge

#67 Leveraging Mondelēz International's CoLab Program to Grow Bunny James Boxes

#66 Sharing is Caring: How Alison Cayne & Haven's Kitchen share cooking confidence and industry knowledge

#65 Mid-Day Squares - National Target Launch, Business Therapy, and Dance Vibes with Jake Karls

#64 Expo East 2022 Recap: Liquids abound, lost voices, and sustainable puns

#63 Meet the 2022 Shelfie Award Winners

#62 Affiliate & Influencer Marketing 101 with Kim Biddle

#61 It's Shelfies Time! Finalists, Winners, and Trends from Startup CPG's 2022 Awards

#60 Venture Capital & Private Equity 101 with VMG Partners' Wayne Wu

#59 Welcome to the Oat Haus! Celebrity Collaboration, Sprouts Launch, and Mental Health with Ali Bonar

#58 Ingredient Sourcing 101

#57 Shark Tank, Sea Moss, and an Ocean of Potential with Alexiou Gibson

#56 First Hire Series: Finance & Accounting with William Finkelstein

#55 Nationally Launching the Reimagination of Jam with Chia Smash

#54 Stories from Inside Mondelēz International's CoLab Program with Pan's Mushroom Jerky & GoNanas

#53 Tsubi Soup! Bringing Plant-Powered Gourmet Soup Cubes from Japan to the US

#52 First Hire Series: Marketing with Vanessa Ting

#51 Pure Gold Series: Ask Seth Goldman Anything! Plus the Announcement of Just Ice Tea

#50 The Data Behind the Modern Wellness Consumer with Social Nature's Jessica Malach

#49 Scaling Health-Ade Kombucha's Operations with Co-Founder Justin Trout

#48 Just TOAST-IT! Data-first, customer-focused, and expanding into Publix with Mafe & Coco

#47 Authenticity 101: Developing a clear & authentic brand identity at SOMOS with Miguel Leal

#46 Pure Gold Series: Keep Going! Reflection on Coca-Cola's Discontinuation of Honest Tea with Seth Goldman

Startup CPG Podcast Trailer 2022

First Hire Series: Sales with Jake Huber

Pure Gold Series: How to Build a Field Marketing Event & Demo Program with Seth Goldman

First Hire Series: Operations with Jamie Valenti-Jordan

Mentorship & community with SKU: the nation's first CPG accelerator

Pure Gold Series: How to Fight Climate Change as an Emerging Brand with Seth Goldman

Looking on the Starryside with co-founders Liz Seelye & Erin Fasano

Introduction to California Prop 65

Pure Gold Series: How to Approach Innovation and Research & Development with Seth Goldman

Expo West 2022 Recap - Spring break vibes, best bites, buyers aplenty, cheeky swag, and more

Taking Networking & Tortillas to the Next Level with Henri Revel, Founder of Eureka Tortilla

Bonus: Finding the Right Freight Partners for your CPG Brand

Pure Gold Series: How to Prep for a Successful Expo West with Seth Goldman

Let's Demystify Insurance - How to navigate insurance in CPG

Accelerators & Incubators 101 - Find the right program for your brand

Inventory Management 101 - Get your inventory operations fit as a Fiddle

Co-Man Contract Pitfalls

Got herbs? Bringing sparking herbal teas to market with Hrbvor's founder, Zahira Marmar

Digital Sampling with Social Nature

Building Strategic Partnerships with Mondelēz International's SnackFutures

Amazon Success Secrets - Actionable Expert Insights on Launching & Growing a CPG Brand on Amazon

Move over coconut water - Pricklee cactus water brings health, happiness, & hydration

Bonus: Expo East 2021 Panel Debrief

How to Mind your Packaging, Branding, (and the Font) with Designer and Agency Owner Kirk Visola

Meet Season 3's New Host - Jessi Freitag

Nemi, The Original, All-Natural Crunchy Cactus (Nopales) Snack