Latest Startuptostorefront Podcast Episodes
Haven's Kitchen - Alison Cayne
Startup to Storefront - October 18, 2022 13:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsBusiness is like basketball. It’s all about the pivot. And Alison Cayne, founder of Haven’s Kitchen, is no stranger to the game. Haven’s Kitchen was founded on the mission of empowering home cooks. The first iteration began with cooking cours.es. Then, it grew into a café and events held in thei...
Gentefy - Barney Santos
Startup to Storefront - October 11, 2022 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsChange is constant. It’s inevitable. But it doesn’t always have to be bad. Gentefiers aren’t strangers to the neighborhood. They are from the community, and they are trying to build up the community that is near and dear to their hearts. From gentefication, we get Gentefy (hen-teh-fi), a dev...
SUYO Pisco - Alex Hildebrandt
Startup to Storefront - October 04, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsPisco is the best kind of brandy that I bet you’ve never heard of. It all starts in the vineyards in Peru. The grapes are picked, pressed, and fermented to create this delicious spirit. Peruvian Pisco is so pure that not even one drop of water will ever touch the inside of the bottle. This liquo...
Avenida Productions - Fanny & Nelson Grande
Startup to Storefront - September 27, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsHollywood does not treat all filmmakers equally. Despite being a critically acclaimed director, Fanny Grande found it extremely difficult to find funding for her movies. The major studios saw Latino movies as a niche market with very little broad appeal. That’s why Fanny and her husband, Nelson ...
Tia Lupita - Hector Saldivar
Startup to Storefront - September 20, 2022 14:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThere is nothing better than a home-cooked meal. As the pan simmers, the tantalizing aromas fill the air, and everyone’s taste buds begin to salivate in excitement. For Hector Saldivar, the founder of Tia Lupita, sharing his family’s hot sauce is akin to welcoming you into his kitchen for a home...
Justina Machado
Startup to Storefront - September 13, 2022 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAccording to the 2020 UCLA “Hollywood Diversity Report”, Latinos made up 18% of the population, yet received only 4.6% of movie roles in 2019. To put it simply, even though Latinos make up almost a fifth of the population, there’s a massive gap in representation on the silver screen. There is, h...
Swing Vision 🎾 - Swupnil Sahai
Startup to Storefront - September 06, 2022 14:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsSwing Vision started as an app that leveraged the Apple Watch to help tennis players improve their game. Players could now track swing movements, hits, and scores. But after working at Tesla, Swupnil Sahai, the co-founder of Swing Vision, realized there was a lot more they could do with this sim...
Sundays - Barbora & Noah
Startup to Storefront - August 30, 2022 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsImagine this. It’s a beautiful Sunday morning. There’s a warm breeze, the birds are chirping in tune, and you feel effortlessly relaxed. Sundays work to capture that feeling of bliss. And no, I’m not talking about the day the of the week, I am referring to Sundays furniture. Sundays is ...
Waldo - Ashleigh Hinde
Startup to Storefront - August 23, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe eyes are the second most complex organ in the body, beaten only by the brain. Thus, it’s no surprise that eye care - specifically daily contact lenses - are expensive. In this, Waldo recognized an opportunity to disrupt the eye care industry. Waldo helps consumers “refocus” by: Saving them ...
Sweet Loren's - Loren Brill
Startup to Storefront - August 16, 2022 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe best part about making cookies is eating the raw dough off the mixers. High risk, high reward. This can make you seriously ill. Between the flour and eggs, salmonella is a real threat. Sweet Loren’s, the #1 natural cookie dough company in the United States, has created the solution we all ne...
Stowed Home - Elissia Sigalow
Startup to Storefront - August 09, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsStowed was founded on a vision. A vision for a more beautiful living space filled with modern, sophisticated, and luxurious furniture that stands the test of time. Founded in 2017, Stowed harnessed the power of Instagram to build a loyal following. Through a beautifully curated aesthetic on thei...
Villas Tacos - Victor Villas
Startup to Storefront - August 02, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsBetween all the Mexican restaurants, food trucks, and street vendors, Los Angeles is the place to be when it comes to getting authentic, mouth-watering tacos. Thus, winning the award for the best tacos in LA is quite the feat. Villas Tacos did the unthinkable. They were crowned as the best tacos...
Lettuce Grow - Jacob Pechenik
Startup to Storefront - July 26, 2022 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIt’s no secret that America’s food supply has been compromised. 52% of produce is wasted. For food to survive the current supply chain, it has to be processed and then sprayed with chemicals. Not everyone has a green thumb, and if you live in a city, it can be hard to find the space to have your...
LiveMore Organics - Julia Klein
Startup to Storefront - July 19, 2022 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsI am willing to bet you don’t drink smoothies because they are too much of a hassle. You have to purchase multiple bags of frozen fruit from the grocery store, portion it out, blend it all together, and then pour it all into a separate cup that I suspect is not built for travel. It’s just too co...
Soona - Liz Giorgi
Startup to Storefront - July 12, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsPicture this, you’re looking to launch a Shopify store for your new product. You sign onto Shopify to set things up, only to realize you have a huge problem you have 0 photos. That’s where Soona comes in. Instead of having to do it yourself, Soona takes the stress away. You ship your products to...
UFC Champ - Carla "Cookie Monster" Esparza
Startup to Storefront - July 05, 2022 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsCarla Esparza is a two-time UFC Women's Strawweight Champion and became the current title holder when she defeated Rose Namjunas. Typically a fighter’s career only lasts a couple of years, and when they have a huge win, they have to stretch the money until their next fight. The pay is not consis...
Alpha A - Manu Seve
Startup to Storefront - June 28, 2022 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAlpha’a is the Squarespace of blockchain. Right now, If you want to utilize the blockchain, you would need to hire a development team to do the coding for the project. It takes time, money, and resources to just find the right dev team, and you haven’t even started coding. Manuela Seve, the foun...
Apothékary - Shizu Okusa
Startup to Storefront - June 21, 2022 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWelcome to Mother Nature’s Farmacy. Today’s guest is Shizu Okusa, the founder of Apothékary. Backed by 5,000 years of science, Apothékary provides Natural Alternatives To Synthetic Skincare And Drugs. The goal is to stay Healthy So You Don’t Have To Get Healthy. Apothékary is at the forefront of...
Xiao Chi Jie - Jen Liao
Startup to Storefront - June 14, 2022 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsYou don’t have to look hard to find a national brand that started from a single-family-owned restaurant. There’s In-N-Out: started by the Snyder family, McDonald’s: started by the McDonald brothers, and Chick-fil-A: started by the Cathy family. While we’re on the topic, go ahead and add Xiao Chi...
Arushi Gallery - Arushi Kapoor
Startup to Storefront - June 07, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhen it comes to the art world, you have artists, dealers, and collectors. Dealers have been around almost as long as humans have been selling art, linking buyers and artists together all over the globe. The relationship between an artist and a dealer was originally based on commerce but eventua...
Drink Renude - Brandon Mizrahie
Startup to Storefront - May 31, 2022 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWant to spice up your morning latte? Try adding some mushrooms to it. And not just any mushrooms, but a specific species that only grows on a small percentage of birch trees in cold weather climates. Seems a bit extreme, right? To Brandon Mizrahie it seemed like the perfect idea for a business. ...
Las Maris Vegan - Carlos Bryant
Startup to Storefront - May 24, 2022 14:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsEat your own dog food. It’s a simple phrase designed to convey the notion that if your product is good enough for your consumers, it’s good enough for you too. For Carlos Bryant, founder of Las Maris vegan food truck, his initial menu didn’t fit with his diet. Las Maris wasn’t always vegan, and ...
Leisuretown - Doug Walker and Jon Feld
Startup to Storefront - May 17, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIf you were to set out to cut your caloric intake today, odds are pretty high that your mind would immediately go to what food groups you could swap out or substitute. But what about swapping out or replacing the beverages you consume on a daily basis? Lower calorie beverages are certainly nothi...
Fuel Finance - Alyona Mysko
Startup to Storefront - May 10, 2022 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOn Thursday, February 24th, Russian military forces crossed the border into Ukraine and ended a peace that had existed in Europe since World War II. The war in Ukraine has, among many other tragedies, created a massive humanitarian crisis with the millions and millions of Ukrainian citizens that...
Lil Bucks - Emily Griffith
Startup to Storefront - April 26, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsScaling a business and cementing your place in an emerging market is a special kind of struggle. While you’re busy building your own brand you’ve also got to be busy educating consumers about the market’s very existence. The appeal of all of this is of course if and when consumer trends shift, a...
Partake Brewing - Ted Fleming
Startup to Storefront - April 19, 2022 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIt wasn’t very long ago that we as a society were told that a small amount of alcohol—say, a glass of wine with dinner—could be beneficial for our cardiovascular health. But a recent study from the World Heart Federation has turned that notion upside down, saying that any amount of drinking alco...
Chili Chews - Shant and Vicken
Startup to Storefront - April 12, 2022 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsRemember when we were all making sourdough bread to pass the time during lockdown? Our guests today were also cooking something up in their kitchen, but it was much sweeter and designed to be more of a long-term play than a short-term way to occupy their time. Shant Reganyan and Vicken Kejejian ...
Drink Champs - DJ EFN
Startup to Storefront - April 08, 2022 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsLast week we had a session on Bright Live with DJ EFN of Drink Champs. His career has taken him everywhere from mixtapes and music marketing to podcasting and documentary filmmaking. The best part about Bright Live is the ability to have audience participation in the conversation. They host a va...
Ventum - Diaa Nour
Startup to Storefront - April 05, 2022 14:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsYou probably don’t have to think too hard to recall the early days of the coronavirus lockdowns. When all we wanted was an excuse to get out of our homes, bikes became that excuse. You could head out your front door and get some exercise while maintaining your social distance. It was the perfect...
Brainiac Foods - Mark Brooks
Startup to Storefront - March 31, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsParents will always want what’s best for their children. Many go to great lengths to give their child just the tiniest leg up if that will mean success down the line. Whether that be after-school tutoring, private music lessons, or waking up at 5AM on a Saturday morning to drive your kid to prac...
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