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by Alex3917 3483 days ago
It wasn't a sales product, we were hosting events to connect startups with bloggers, and also building scaleable promotion tools.

The issue with the food space is that most new products start out at their local farmers market, then get into Whole Foods, and then maybe attend the Fancy Food Show. And that's it for a long time. Trying to displace any of those channels is basically impossible. Building an additional channel is possible, but in addition to needing an exceedingly good cost/benefit ratio, you also need a very large source of targeted inexpensive leads.