The FruitGuys has created a new non-profit project to support its long-standing hunger relief mission. The FoodWorks Fund, a fiscally-sponsored project of Community Initiatives, provides direct …
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Founder Chris Mittelstaedt on the Covid Recession in the WSJ
The FruitGuys Founder, Chris Mittelstaedt was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about the economic effects of the Covid-19 crisis on small businesses. Read the full article in PDF …
Coming of Age
I owe the birth of The FruitGuys to the creative power of, well, desperation. It was 1997. My wife, Pia, and I had been married for a year and were living in a small one-bedroom apartment in San …
How to Resolve a Customer Crisis
(Reprinted from Chris Mittelstaedt’s column, "Eureka," on Inc.com.) Every business makes mistakes. What you do next is the difference between losing customers forever and gaining lifelong …
The Bank Scam That Hit My Business
Reprinted from Chris Mittelstaedt’s column Eureka on Inc.com FruitGuys founder Chris Mittelstaedt explains how hackers got into his company's bank account--and how not to let it happen to …
Is This Your Employees’ Idea of Service?
Reprinted from Chris Mittelstaedt’s column Eureka on Inc.com When an employee flipped off a key customer, this CEO realized his company had a culture problem. Here's how he fixed it. Many …