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Rachael Floreani, founder of Burlington Bio, speaks with us about the world of upcycled nutrition, which utilizes commonly discarded food that we often take for granted, and repurposing it into nutritious and affordable food to fight back against food insecurity.  Through the ups and downs, Ra…

Bill Calfee has one goal, keep the power in the community and keep it human. In this episode of StartHere, Bill talks to us about how his time spent living on a boat helped guide him to start Myti. Myti’s online marketplace is made up of a collection of local Vermont businesses to make it easier to…

​This special edition of Start Here features Jon McNeill — 6x entrepreneur, former President of Tesla, and author of The Algorithm — who spoke at AI After Hours on the hypergrowth formula that transformed some of the world's most iconic companies. Jon shares frameworks behind the explosive growth a…

After selling his company, Neil Shah took a break and found his next startup while sitting by his woodstove. That moment led to Oru, a woodstove-monitoring system that embodies a beautiful lamp. The catch? Neil knew nothing about woodstoves. He turned to Reddit, learning from the community that wou…

“To be an entrepreneur, you have to be inherently lazy.” RJ Adler joins Start Here to give us the update on WheelPad, a manufacturer of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) based in Wilmington, Vermont. Aside from building ADU’s for families around the country, RJ talks about his experience coming from …

Michele Asch is the kind of leader who builds things… and then helps others do the same. As Chief People Officer at Twincraft Skincare, she's part of the team making Vermont a legitimate hub for skincare innovation, manufacturing premium products for over 150 brands across North America. Outside of…

If there’s an entrepreneur to watch right now, it’s Kevin LeSage. He’s the founder of SearchLight, an analytics platform bringing a clear, unbiased view to return on ad spend and showing contractors which leads actually turn into booked jobs. He’s taken a different path to get here, choosing to lea…

Jason “J” Levinthal started making skis in his parents' garage at the age of 24. After founding a company, seeing it acquired, and realizing he wasn’t built to sit still, he launched J Skis, a direct-to-skier brand creating hand-crafted, limited-edition skis. With a background in brand marketing, J…

Jason Wilbur is the founder of Wilbur, a luxury watch company. He joins the show to talk about what it really takes to break from the expected and build something entirely your own. After leading advanced design at Honda, Jason walked away to create what he calls “mechanized art”— a bold reimaginin…