Sataysfied

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by Sataysfied 14y ago
Right now, we are not pivoting. We have a business model we believe in that was working (albeit some things have to change). I have no plans to be a catering agency or compete with those guys. I just want to cater to startups with the food
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
Yeah, maybe I will try it the next time around. Thanks so much for your advice. I am willing to try anything at this point, or rather just do my best moving forward.
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
Honestly, I don't fault the agency. Although I did not mention their name, if anything was wrong, it was probably my fault. I relayed as much and as honestly of the story from my point of view as I can. At this point, I'm putting everything
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
Thank you. I am slowly trying to calm down. Definitely don't want to over react. It is incredibly insanely hard for me to open up like this as it leaves me super vulnerable and pretty much puts everything on the table. I wouldn't be doing t
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
Thank you so much. I appreciate your words at this time.
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
Just say when and where. I will email tonight. Thank you so much.
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
I totally agree Larry. I am definitely taking the intiative. My plan of attack right now, unsure if this is the right idea, is to take a large sample to upcoming meetups for people to try my food, hit up companies via email, twitter, etc...
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I thought it was only a food truck thing.
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
The honest truth is I didn't know about it. We are a food startup and although we talk to a lot of startups, I guess it never came up. I only know of news sources like Techcrunch.
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
Sorry, on iPhone so can't type everything out easily. Please see my reply to another commentator on background story on losing the catering agency. As for the food truck route, unfortunately that is a very high cost (truck and all) and a hu
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
We don't. We have catered to all sorts of companies including big corps like Apple. Startups has just been easier for us to reach as its hard to make sales with big companies but we are open to any all clients.
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
Thank you so much for all your suggestions, I am definitely going to hit the streets hard and will look into doing some of the things you suggested. I appreciate it greatly.
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
Thanks man, you don't know how much this means to me right now.
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by Sataysfied 14y ago
The mistake I made that made me lose the catering agency was a startup had ordered food with instructions that basically said something like "please leave fish sauce out, someone is allergic". I took that as only one person was and brought
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