Well I'm back, not as soon as I had hoped. It has been a busy summer and time has just flown by. I have been working long and hard on my 9 to 5 and Nana Jones trying to make my dreams come to pass. I have developed my business plan and it just needs some tweeking, but boy oh boy, talk about hard work. In any case, I am posting some of the great milestones we (the NJFB Team) have accomplished thus far. Stay tuned for some interesting tea comparisons that I plan to post soon & do enjoy the rest of your summer.
We are a food & beverage process mfg company.
We are an early stage startup
We have a functional founding team of 4 individuals
We started in the summer of August 2008
So far we have done unscientific taste testing
We have setup a blog, twitter, online meetings, online intranet, online
project management
We have a startup checklist
We have a product rollout & launch checklist
We have sample financial models and forecast models
We have sample standard operation procedure manuals that need to be customized for NJFB Inc
We have the ability to produce product for sampling and taste testing
We have determined 4 different product items in product line:
o *Sweet Green Decaffeinated Tea w/lemon
o *Sweet Green Tea (caffeinated) w/lemon
o *Sweet Green Decaffeinated Tea w/splenda & lemon
o *Sweet Green Tea (caffeinated) w/splenda & lemon
We have identified a marketing/brand specialist
We have identified a beverage concentrate mfr
We have researched the bottle design
We have identified Industry Associations
