Business Insider -
25 Feb 2016 17:54
Thrive Market Thrive Market cofounders Gunnar Lovelace and Nick Green were rejected by more than 20 venture capital firms when they first tried to raise money for their health startup. The pitch was this: The pair wanted to launch an online organic food and natural products marketplace, which would use a membership fee of $60 per year (think Costco) to slash prices 25-50%. “[The venture capitalists] all wanted to just wait and see,” Green tells Business Insider. No one wanted to invest...
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