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How Crowdsourcing Built The World’s #1 Wine Brand

How Crowdsourcing Built The World’s #1 Wine Brand

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Contributed Article

Hi! We are Michael and Bonnie, the founders of the world’s largest wine brand. Did you know that we used crowdsourcing to build Barefoot Wine? Sure, it wasn’t called “Crowdsourcing” back then, but it was the secret to our success! If Necessity is the Mother of...
3 Business Functions You Can’t Outsource

3 Business Functions You Can’t Outsource

BEYOND LEAN

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

The Burn Rate and Runway It’s always painful for us to hear a new wantrepreneur talking about the first steps they’re going to take when they go into business. They usually say something like, “Well, if I’m going to go into business, I’m going to need to get an...
Give Your Problems the Deep Six!

Give Your Problems the Deep Six!

BELIEVING IS SEEING!

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

These days we’re not supposed to call them “problems.” Now they’re “challenges.” But no matter what you call them, every day we entrepreneurs seem to face a new one, from putting out small fires to tackling ongoing threats to our business. All problems have this in...
7 Ways to Reduce Your Need for Capital

7 Ways to Reduce Your Need for Capital

GET MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK!

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Happy Veterans Day, everybody! Today, November 11, 2015, it is our honor and our pleasure to speak at the first annual Vets Rock event at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut.  What would we share at this keynote event with more than 100 veteran-owned businesses that would be...
Taste California Travel!

Taste California Travel!

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

The Barefoot Spirit Review by Dan Clarke   The Barefoot Spirit succeeds on several levels. Those in or around the wine business will enjoy some of the inside scoop on how a young couple naively entered their industry, made predictable mistakes and yet survived....
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