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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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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks, The FruitLife Tagged With: chris mittelstaedt, community initiatives, COVID-19 crisis, fighting hunger, food-banks, GoodWorks, helping small farms, hunger, hunger relief, local charity, non-profit, The FoodWorks Fund, The FruitGuys
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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 …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife, WorkLife Tagged With: chris mittelstaedt, Covid Recession, Covid-19, entrepreneurs, fruitguys, small business owner, The FruitGuys, wall street journal
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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 …
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(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 …
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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 …
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Reprinted from Chris Mittelstaedt’s column Eureka on Inc.com For too long you've served as Chief Fire Extinguisher. It's time to step back and start working on building your business. Are you …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, WorkLife Tagged With: building your business, Business Control Freak, chris mittelstaedt, Delegation, entrepreneurs, Getting (Big) Things Done, inc., problem solver, to-do goals
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Reprinted from Chris Mittelstaedt’s column Eureka on Inc.com I discovered my first lesson in how not to motivate people at the bottom of a kitchen sink. In 1986, when I was 16 years old, my …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, WorkLife Tagged With: 5 Employee Morale Killers, attrition, chris mittelstaedt, employee morale, eureka, goals, inc. inc.com, job satisfaction, squeaky wheel
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Reprinted from Chris Mittelstaedt’s column Eureka on Inc.com Eric Ryan, co-founder of method home products, reveals the four things his company does to keep the creativity flowing. At 36,000 …
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Reprinted from Chris Mittelstaedt’s column Eureka on Inc.com It's the threat you never see coming. In fact, even after you crash and burn you still might not recognize it. Sometimes the biggest …
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Reprinted from Chris Mittelstaedt's column Eureka on Inc.com Sometimes there are problems simply too thorny and overwhelming to solve the usual ways; they require you to think differently. But …
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Dear FruitFriends, In the following article, Heidi Lewis writes about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and more specifically what they are (and are not) relative to food. The FruitGuys has …
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Filed Under: Food, FruitGuys News Tagged With: chris mittelstaedt, engineered, genetically modified food, gmo experiments, grapefruit, Labeling initiative, mint, natural hybridization. cross pollination, seedless watermelon, tangelos, tomatoes, wheat
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I’ve always been a pretty active person—something that made coming down with a random medical condition all the more humbling. About a month ago I had an acute onset of achalasia, an uncommon disorder …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: chris mittelstaedt, east coast farms, fall, farming, Farms, hurricane damage, hurricane irene, Weather
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The Light Brown Apple Moth is an indigenous pest considered harmless to crops in New Zealand, Hawaii, Australia, and the UK, all countries that are free to export fruits and vegetables to U.S. markets …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: alliance to stop the spray, article, blue moon organics, California, chris mittelstaedt, commonwealth club, farming, LBAM, light brown apple moth, pesticides, quarantine, stop the spray
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