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Calling all @UMich entrepreneurs!
@myfirstmilpod's first ever college pitch comp is coming to the best university in the world...
Win $5K and pitch your idea in front of a 3M+ audience!
5 startups selected to pitch: mfmpod.com/p/mich/
@thesamparr @ShaanVP @bar5hop
In 2008, Netflix director Mike Cessario noticed something strange at a music festival.
A decade later, he started one of the fastest growing beverage brands.
His 3 yr old startup will make $130M this year selling what most people get close to free: WATER.
Read on ⬇️👇
By selling a widely available commodity that's consumed for free, Mike and his team were able to focus on a single variable.
BRAND.
There's so much the brand stands for:
Environmentalism (recyclable cans)
Sober Curious Movement (looks like beer)
Health (0 cals)
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Another week, another Snapchat announcement!
Excited to help bring @ourfuture__, the #1 Source of Business Stories for Gen Z, to Snapchat Discover.
Don't sleep on Snap - the first episode racked up over 200k+ views!
New episodes every Tuesday. Tune in 👇
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Boom! Our second TikTok property, Our Future Bites just hit 100K followers.
It's a great case study in Our Future's plan to build a multi-property/multi-creator media franchise.
By EOY, we'll have 2 more creators/sub-brands and will wash, rinse, repeat.
Hand me the soap!
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Did you know Jeff Bezos' desk at Amazon was made out of a door for years as he was building Amazon?
In the early days, even though he just started what would become a multi-billion dollar company, he still drove his rundown Honda.
🔗Follow thread.
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We all know billionaires have some pretty extreme diets.
Warren Buffett eats McDonald's every morning 🍔.
Steve Jobs once turned orange from eating tons of carrots 🥕.
But none compare to Mark Zuckerberg…
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Here's how two hippies sued the Pillsbury Doughboy and became millionaires.
🔗 Follow thread for how two scrappy entrepreneurs turned their misfortune into fortune.
How GameStop is stealing from Jeff Bezos.
How two hippies made millions suing the Pillsbury Doughboy.
How a suitcase startup launched with a viral coffee table book.
All this and more in today's Our Future newsletter Down pointing backhand index
ourfuture.substack.com/p/kan…
Most successful shark tank pitches ever: Tipsy Elves 🦈 🎅
A former dentist and lawyer pitched the sharks on an ugly sweater startup...
As you might expect, the sharks were hesitant as they saw crude representations of rudolph and santa knitted into innuendo.
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But Robert Herjavec took a chance on the duo ($100k for 10%), and it became his favorite shark tank investment ever.
To date, the San Diego based startup has done over $125,000,000 in sales and has collabed with brands like Tinder and Taco Bell.
Wait what look at the models...
Are NFTs the future of the creator economy?
In #151 Gen Z founder, @Everett_Kohl, Founder of Dbilia, discusses his transformative NFT marketplace designed for creators.
youtube.com/watch?v=B0P44EbW…
🚨 We're hosting an event w/ Damien Huang, CEO of Eddie Bauer, tomorrow at 10 AM PT at a free live event for young business leaders.
Register here: lu.ma/ourfutureibc
