125 episodes
Edible-Alpha® Podcast Food Finance Institute
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4.5 • 19 Ratings
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Edible-Alpha® is your source for actionable insights into making money in food. Hosted by the Food Finance Institute, we talk to a wide range of stakeholders about what it really takes to grow a successful food business. Learn more at www.edible-alpha.org
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Helping Food and Farm Entrepreneurs Access R&D Funding
Idella Yamben, Ph.D., shares how the Wisconsin Center for Technology Commercialization helps early-stage businesses test assumptions and secure grants to foster commercialization.
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Financial Lessons from a Successful Diversified Farm
Andy chats with Cliff McConville of All Grass Farms about the diversified ag operation’s success, steady expansion, and financial savvy.
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Farmer Brothers Distill Grains into Profits
Andy interviews Will Glazik of Cow Creek Organic Farm and Silver Tree Beer & Spirits to learn how he and his brothers are building upon their family farming legacy with a consumer brand and their own grain distillery.
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Sisters Succeed with Simple Syrup, Soda Shop, and Subscriptions
Belinda Kelly and Venise Cunningham of Simple Goodness Sisters stop by to discuss their innovative farm-based company, diversified business model, and plans for growth.
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Doctor Turns Dates into Healthier Sweetener
Sylvie Charles, M.D., traded a stable career as a physician for the wild ride of entrepreneurship when launching organic real-food sweetener company Just Date in 2018. She shares the mission behind her endeavor, along with her business arc and growth strategy.
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SBDC Consultant Helps Food Businesses Go Global
Chris Wojtowicz from the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center unpacks the global expansion process for small food and farm businesses looking for new market opportunities.
Customer Reviews
Great for all types of food businesses
I've been an advice listener to Edible-Alpha for over 2 years and look forward to each podcast. The information Terra shares and her guests is insightful, valuable and I'm always learning. While based in Wisconsin and sometimes focused for that region you will always here information you can put in place or share with others.
Great listen!
Love the focus on the entrepreneurs who are changing the ecosystem!
Food Entrepreneur Must Listen
This is an excellent podcast for food entrepreneurs: part inspiration, part nuts and bolts, part strategy. I eagerly await every new episode because I know I'll learn something. Too often entrepreneurial podcasts are done by celebrity hosts that don't really know what questions to ask (think How I Built This) or former venture capitalists who say ridiculous things like "you have to have the very best people in every position" (think Masters of Scale). Tera's podcast is awesome because she's built an incredibly successful food business of her own, she's done a tremendous amount of food entrepreneur consulting, and she knows that most of us out here have a passion for our product, and we're just trying to figure it all out with the skillset and budget we have. She's trying to help us where the rubber meets the road to help us get traction in growing our business. Awesome!