January 2011
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Food+Tech Bytes 1.31.11 - 2.6.11
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Help Food+Tech Connect Win $25k in Seed Funding
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Windowfarms for Classrooms: Crowdsourcing...
“The creativity of the individual “farmer” is the critical component to better environmental stewardship and food system change. We want to get citizens, teachers and kids thinking of themselves as farmers, experimenters, pioneers as much as our forefathers did. Stewardship means designing smart plans for the specific needs of one’s community and environment and making...
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Making FarmVille Real
It’s refreshing to hear Dave Thier talk about the struggles he had as a farmer on FarmVille. I hesitate to say it, but I think his experience – the attraction, the addiction, the desertion, actually bodes well for farms and farmers. Apparently more than 80 million people want to get involved with the farm (albeit only at arm’s length), but, man, it’s a hard life even on FarmVille. Most of us...
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Video: January Food+Tech Meetup With Wholeshare &...
January Food+Tech Meetup With Wholeshare and Meatshare from Food Tech Connect on Vimeo.
The January Food+Tech Meetup featured a conversation about developing new models for organizing food communities and getting food to those communities, moderated by Elizabeth Mcvay Greene. Matt Hatoun of Wholeshare and Melissa Mcewen of the Meatshare Meetup discussed how they are using technology to making...
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Rapping Farmers: A YouTube Success Story
This video of farmers rapping about organic dairy production was produced as an advertisement for organic dairy brand Yeo Valley. The video, which debuted in October, has been viewed approximately 1.6 million times to date. According to an article in The Grocer, the ad has helped Yeo Valley increase sales by almost £10m.
Be sure to visit their stylish and social media savvy website.
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Yummly CEO David Feller On Food Data & Semantic...
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily and quickly find the exact recipe you want, based on your personal health profile and preferences?
Yummly CEO and Founder David Feller thinks so. Back in 2009, Feller recognized an opportunity to leverage recommendation engine technology to create a more intelligent recipe search engine, similar to Amazon and Netflix. Yummly’s recipe platform...
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Food+Tech Bites 1/24/11 - 1/30/11
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Your Questions: Get Answers To Your Burning Questions
Last week I asked: Would you try a slice of human cheese? Does the idea of human cheese...
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Where's The Beef? Defining Food+Tech Connect's...
Hamburgers Tonight!, originally uploaded by jamieanne.
To develop revenues for a business plan you have to have a clear idea of the value proposition. Or, to put it simply: Who will pay for what? This is the meat of the plan – the beef in the bun.
To develop sponsorship revenue estimates for Food+Tech Connect I started by looking for what other sites have done. Many bloggers write about...
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Why I Write About Food: Creating Community
What does—or could, or even should—it mean to write about food today?
I am honored to join more than 40 amazing writers in a conversation about this question as part of a multi-site discussion hosted by Food Editor Nicola Twilley, in honor of the re-launch of GOOD magazine’s food section.
It’s funny, in a million years I would never have imagined myself a writer. To be honest, I never really...
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RecipeRelay: Using the Web to Socialize &...
Everyday, food lovers from all over the world log on to the web in search of recipes. A growing number of sites, such as Food52 and Gourmet Live, are helping to democratize, personalize , and socialize the cooking experience (click here for a more complete of social recipe sites).
RecipeRelay is an interesting social recipe venture started by recent Antioch MBA granduates Sarah Maine and...
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Your Weekly Questions: Would You Try A Slice of...
Your weekly questions provides a forum for you and fellow members of the food and tech community to ask questions and gain insights about products, research, and resources. Do you have any burning questions? Don’t be shy, send them my way (danielle [at] foodtechconnect [dot] com) and I’ll include them in the newsletter next week!
Last week I asked: Would you try a slice of human...
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relating to people
share your raw, vulnerable, fearful self- it’s amazing how much better relationships can be when you do
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Monetizing Food+Tech Connect
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One glaring hole in the Food+Tech Business Model Canvas is, of course, revenue. The central issue for an online media platform (or any start-up business!) is how to monetize (ie, get paid for) the value of the content and underlying...
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Visualizing The Honey Bee Extinction
User interface and data visualization design firm FFunction created this infographic to visualize the severe decline of the honey bee population (Colongy Collapse Disorder) over the last 5 years, how it affects us, and why it matters.
Why should we care? According to the infographic, bee-pollinated crops account for 1/3 of our diet and represent $15-$20 billion of crops annually.
Often...
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Miriam Simun On Human Cheese, Biotechnology, &...
Would you try a slice of human cheese?
I’ve asked this question at a dinner of artists and sustainable food advocates, at dinner with my family, and in conversation with friends. There are the brave few who say they would be interested in trying, however, most people react in utter disgust [note to self: bringing up at the dinner table may ruin someone’s appetite and meal].
After the...
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Food+Tech Bites 1/10/11 - 1/16/11
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Your Questions
Last week, I asked if you would be interested in having me launch a Your Weekly Questions section in the newsletter and on the...
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Your Weekly Questions: 1/10/11 - 1/16/10/11
Last week, I asked if you would be interested in having me launch a Your Weekly Questions section in the newsletter and on the website. The idea is to get everyone talking and make it easier for you to get answers to your burning questions. Below are the questions I received for this week. Please feel free to comment on Facebook, Twitter, or in the comments section. I will aggregate and post...
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The Product Group Meetup: Jeremy Fisher on...
The Product Group Meetup: Jeremy Fisher on Dinevore from Food Tech Connect on Vimeo.
The January Product Group Meetup featured Dinevore founder Jeremy Fisher. In this video, Fisher and the group discuss his approach to building dinevore.com. Fisher and members of the group offer really interesting insight into process, customer development, and usability experience.
It was an all around...
Surreal State of Mind
Within the next couple of hours my Bubby is going to die.
The finality of death puzzles and overwhelms me.
Life will go on, I know.
But right now, how strange and unimaginable it feels to wrap my mind around the reality- here today, gone forever tomorrow.
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8 Simple Steps to Hackathon Epiphany
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the largest event I had ever organized were dinner parties for 10 in my apartment. Then the Food+Tech Hackathon came along.
With 12 days of lead time, a $100 budget from Gojee, and big aspirations, I joined Danielle Gould (founder of Food+tech Connect), Marc Alt (CEO of Opensourcecities), and Steve McGrath (CTO of Gojee) to figure out how to create the first ever...
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Food Sprout: Mapping The Food Supply Chain
Where does your food come from? The answer is more difficult than you might imagine. Thankfully, a growing number of tech savvy entrepreneurs are leveraging their Web2.0 acumen and the open government data movement to address the problem.
Food Sprout is a new, data-driven website that is mapping the food supply chain to improve transparency about where our food comes from. The site aims to...
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Mint.com Visualizes The Economics Of The Burrito
Mint.com
Mint.com created this interactive infographic visualizing the consumption, production, and production value of the most commonly used burrito ingredients.
Original Article
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Business Model Building Blocks: Join The...
Happy 2011! A new year, a fresh set of goals. Ready to build something new? Or adopt a fresh approach to an ongoing project? If so, I have a post-holiday treat for you: a business planning tool that combines strategy with visual thinking to provoke innovation.
Last Summer I was taking advantage of the air conditioning at a Barnes and Noble in Manhattan when I stumbled across a MUST OWN...
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CEO Brian Witlin On ShopWell & Their Data Driven...
If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed that many of the startups I’ve interviewed are data-driven. Why? Because addressing even the seemingly most basic food system challenges, such as what to eat, requires the management of large amounts of data. I’ve spent the last eleven months speaking with people about ways t0 incentivize the sharing of both corporate and...
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Food+Tech Bites 1/3/11 - 1/9/11
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Kicking The New Year Off With a Question
Happy new year everyone! I hope you are all rested, refreshed, and ready for an exciting new year.
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