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Jarrett says Pipeline Innovator of the Year award is validating, surreal
Paul Jarrett’s opinion of the Pipeline entrepreneurship program changed quickly. At the beginning, talked into it by friends and mentors, Jarrett went to the first interview in jeans and was surrounded by entrepreneurs with suits and briefcases. “I’ve never owned a briefcase in my life,” he said. But by the end of it, after he…
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Details emerge on Bulu Box’s “The Good Life Halfsy” half marathon
Bulu Box, the Lincoln-based health and nutrition subscription company, has partnered with Pink Gorilla events to present The Good Life Halfsy, a new Lincoln half marathon on Nov. 9. Bulu Boxes are delivered in all 50 states, but co-founders Paul and Stephanie Jarrett were looking to provide a healthy opportunity to those a little closer…
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Health startup Bulu Box teases “Good Life Halfsy” half marathon with video
Bulu Box, the monthly health subscription service based in Lincoln, might just be starting the city’s second half marathon. Details are scarce, but the startup posted the above 19-second video with the promise of more info come Jan. 31…
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Startup Spaces: Looking back at the six featured startups of 2013
Last year we launched Startup Spaces, a monthly series in partnership with turnstone that showcases the unique offices of companies across the Silicon Prairie. Its been a lot of fun to coordinate over the last six months, and we’ve affectionately come to describe this series as “MTV Cribs for the startup crowd.” We asked our…
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Sqwiggle helps keep remote teams connected via text, instant video
For many startups, remote team members are a familiar reality. While products like Skype and Google+ help teams connect across distances, even those have their short-comings. Meet Sqwiggle: a new platform that stays online all day to help remote teams stay connected …
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Inc. Magazine lists Dwolla, Bulu Box, HLT and more as startups to watch
In a recently published list, Inc. Magazine named a number of well-known startups as the “8 Silicon Prairie Startups Worth Watching.” Des Moines’ Dwolla, Lincoln-based Bulu Box and Kansas City’s AgLocal all made the list…
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Bulu Box surpasses 30K customers, $100K in monthly revenue
Less than one year since officially launching its website and just off an appearance at The Brandery’s BrandFusion, Lincoln-based startup Bulu Box has a few major milestones to report. The startup’s co-founder Paul Jarrett says that in August the startup surpassed 10,000 active subscribers, 30,000 total customers and …
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Startup Spaces: Explore Bulu Box’s office, housed in a converted condo
For many entrepreneurs and startup teams, non-traditional workspaces have become the norm. And for Lincoln-based startup Bulu Box, a refurbished condo proved the perfect fit for the active, health-focused company. “As a health startup company, an apartment is the perfect space for our culture,” Kate Stous, Bulu Box’s director of brand relations, told Silicon Prairie…
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User data helps Bulu Box add weight loss product, gain paid subscribers
You could say Bulu Box has started to think outside the box. Its monthly subscription box of vitamin and supplement samples, that is. “Right now we’re focused on subscribers and converting those subscribers into long-term purchasers, which is really where the value of our company is,” co-founder and CEO Paul Jarrett (left) told Silicon Prairie…