Projected to do $255k Euro, this Plant Based Food Startup is Sprouting with Jivko Djamiarov
plus how I got 500 newsletter subscribers by Casey Hill
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In this issue: quotes from Bill Walsh, cool LinkedIn posts to learn from, Innovators Can Laugh with Jivko Djamiarov, and more!
Cool links to check out
🗞️ How I got 500 newsletter subscribers from a LinkedIn post by Casey Hill
📶 7 Google Sheets (& Excel) hacks for better marketing and SEO
🔬 13 steps I take to analyse my 200,000 viewed Linkedin posts by Josh Blackburn
🍔 If B2B SaaS brands sold hamburgers
Innovators Can Laugh
Can you imagine a plant-based food that can help prevent diseases? Well it exists and is beginning to sprout globally. Jivko Djamiarov is the founder of Ancestral Superfoods. His mission is to bring the healing power and benefits of plants and foods to others. On this episode of Innovators Can Laugh, Jivko shares his entrepreneurial journey of opening the first vegan restaurant in Bulgaria and how he launched Ancestral Superfoods and gained traction. They have more than 3,000 customers and are projected to do $250,000+ Euros in 2023.
Oh, and he sent me samples of some of the products they sell and they are delicious! Listen to the show on Apple, Spotify, or other player here.
Show highlights:
- 1:00 – Pearl Jam
- 1:37 - $25k cash or dinner with Simon Sinek?
- 3:27 – a favorite book you would gift to others
- 4:51 – what a ‘perfect day’ would look like?
- 5:15 – how he got the idea for soul kitchen, the first vegan restaurant in Bulgaria
- 8:20 – average margins for a vegan restaurant
- 9:50 – why he left the restaurant to focus on superfoods
- 11:35 – taken into ICU, parting with my loved ones & the vision for Superfoods
- 16:55 – what do they like about Ancestral Superfoods?
- 18:41 – how did he get this product to market?
- 19:54 – what are the top selling products?
- 20:50 – what the investment experience has looked like?
- 21:45 – what are you excited about in the next 12 months as it relates to Ancestral?
- 24:10 – what is a mistake you made early in your startup journey?
Being a Woman with Tattoos…Popular Clip
Popular clip with Angela Ivanova from Lamon as she explains what it was like to pitch VCs as a woman. Catch the full video interview here.
2 Great Quotes
🏈 “Champions behave like champions before they are champions”
👫 “Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.”
Bill Walsh, American Professional and College football coach. Won 3 Superbowls as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.
The End
It’s been ‘British’ like weather here in Bucharest. Rainy, cold, and gray. But I am excited about next weekend as I’m taking the kids to the mountains for their first snowboarding lesson!
I’m also planning a guys night out with some friends next Friday night, aka ‘OTP Players’ 😆
Let’s get out there and kick some butt!
Eric M.