Toolsite Spotlight (6 of 6): The Frozen Processing HubSizer®
A microblog series on the HubSizer® and MarketSizer® tools from New Venture Advisors Are you a food hub that sees surges from your farmers in broccoli in the summer or […]
Toolsite Spotlight (4 of 6): The Produce Facility Hubsizer®
A microblog series on the HubSizer® and MarketSizer® tools from New Venture Advisors. Over the past few weeks we’ve explored how to analyze a market for local food with the […]
Toolsite Spotlight (3 of 6): The Local Produce HubSizer®
A microblog series on the HubSizer® and MarketSizer® tools from New Venture Advisors. This week we’re looking into how to use the Local Produce HubSizer® tool to estimate the economics […]
Toolsite Spotlight (2 of 6): The Rural Grocery HubSizer®
A microblog series on the HubSizer® and MarketSizer® tools from New Venture Advisors. This week we’re digging into how to use the Rural Grocery HubSizer® tool. This tool was designed for […]
Toolsite Spotlight (1 of 6): The Local Food MarketSizer®
We are so excited about the launch of the NVA Toolsite and to get these tools into the hands of food system professionals, farmers, entrepreneurs, store owners and all of […]
6 New Tools for Food System Planners
Over the last nine years New Venture Advisors has had the privilege of participating in over 60 food systems studies ranging from feasibility studies to market assessments, business plans and […]
Good Food Glossary: What is (and isn’t) a Food Hub?
There are so many “new” terms out there describing our food these days. They are on the produce racks (natural, organic, local, sustainably grown, fresh) and they are in the […]
Ready, aim, farm! How one county is addressing wholesale readiness
The regionally-based, source-identified wholesale supply chain, once a creature of mystery reserved for the imagination of a handful of optimistic change-makers, is now a successful tool for creating market opportunities […]
It’s never too late (or too early) to write a business plan
We sometimes get calls from business leaders who are stuck. They lay out a number of issues hoping we can help them. This might be an owner of a food […]
