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Byjanettebarnard20August 29, 2022December 28, 2022

Prime Future 115: Building the (sales) machine as you fly

Let’s talk about building out a sales capability within a startup. This is so tricky because, by definition, you are building the sales process &...

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Byjanettebarnard20July 4, 2022December 28, 2022

Prime Future 107: Lunatic farmers, velocity, & the 1% rule 🚀

The content below is from one of my favorite Prime Future editions from 2021. In the coming months, we’ll build on the concept of...

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Byjanettebarnard20June 6, 2022December 28, 2022

Prime Future 103: I don’t wanna feed the world anymore.

My friends. I have resisted writing this for a while but alas, here we are. I recently saw a tweet that said: The American...

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Byjanettebarnard20May 16, 2022December 28, 2022

Prime Future 100: For the 100th time 😁

I started this project in the uncertainty & isolation of those early pandemic days. The stock market was in free fall and grocery stores...

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Byjanettebarnard20April 25, 2022December 28, 2022

Prime Future 97: Game recognize game, scale recognize scale.

The first third of the book The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr is on the evolution & early innovations of the US food retail...

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Byjanettebarnard20May 22, 2021February 21, 2022

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Prime Future 52: Where’s the Honeycrisp of the meat case?

I love wandering the aisles of a boujee grocery store. HEB, Whole Foods, Wegman’s…here for them all. Naturally a highlight is walking the produce...

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Byjanettebarnard20January 22, 2021

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The Meat Cartel’s Moat

The whiplash inducing effects of the pandemic highlighted the bottleneck in the meat value chain that sends economic ripples from ranches to food retailers:...

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Byjanettebarnard20July 24, 2020March 10, 2021

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5 Ways Land Grants can triumph in the post-COVID agriculture industry

The world is moving fast. Universities seem to move…less fast. With universities making plans for education delivery in the upcoming academic year, it raises...

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Byjanettebarnard20June 18, 2020March 10, 2021

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Tired of being a price taker? Build a moat.

The livestock & poultry industry has spent decades driving cost out of animal production systems to increase profit. And we’ve done it well. Really...

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Byjanettebarnard20March 12, 2020March 10, 2021

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Agriculture’s next AI: Augmenting Innovation

“For startups, 2010 – 2020 was about disrupting, 2020 – 2030 will be about augmenting. Its saying here’s what you as incumbents do well,...