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My brief but meaningful interaction with Arram and the team at ZeroCater was nothing short of exceptional. Exceptional care for their service and customer, exceptional determination and conviction. They are an intensely likeable people.
All the best Arram!
I always chuckle when I hear "MVP" in the same sentence as a RoR/node.js stack, complicated monetization strategies and A/B testing. A bank account and a Google Docs spreadsheet. That's MVP.
A Startup has nothing to do with a 'node.js/RoR/GoOnSkis/etc' stack or computes. The association is statistical rather than structural.
The business comes first.
Of course programming helps and saves pain. But my money is on the business knowledge first.
Yes, the 'computer people' like to bash the business people, and it is often true that sometimes they have bad ideas or act like they know the business when they don't. This is like the tech specialists thinking a product will sell only based on its tech specs.
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As a vegetarian fed by ZeroCater, it feels like a lot of the time the thinking goes something like 'we have 20 meat-eaters and 3 vegetarians - let's get 20 lamb/chicken shish kebaps and 3 vegetables ones!' It sucks to have to make a meal out of sides, and it seems like the meals are structured most of the time such that quinoa salad or mac & cheese are perceived as being sides. And I don't think the solution is to te…
I'm curious, what's wrong with 20 meat/3 veg for these single-serve meals? Most meat-eaters wouldn't be happy being forced to eat the vegetarian option, that's bound to happen unless you provide more food than necessary. The rest of what you said only applies to a lunch not served in individual portions.