Bulu Box

  • Five questions to pop before you take the startup plunge with your spouse

    (Guest post by Stephanie Jarrett.) My husband Paul and I have put our marriage to the test more than a few times. We’ve worked at ad agencies together, we’ve been poor together and we’ve moved cross-country more than once. Each time after moving furniture into a new apartment, in a new city, I’ve looked at…

  • No. 1: “Fire the a**holes”

    (Guest post by Paul Jarrett.) If my title was polarizing enough to entice you to read this, I’m guessing I have about two minutes and thirty seven seconds to get a few points across about company culture before you decide to stop reading before I lose you to /r/AWW. I could spend some of that…

  • Bulu Box co-founders to share story Thursday night at Cornstalks

    Paul and Stephanie Jarrett, the husband-and-wife co-founders of Bulu Box, moved east from San Francisco to Lincoln earlier this year to accelerate the growth of their startup, a service that mails subscribers boxes of vitamin and supplement samples. On Thursday, the Jarretts (left) will travel a little further east, to Omaha, share their story at…

  • With $400k round led by Dundee VC, Bulu Box set to hire, push marketing

    Bulu Box continues to find fertile ground for raising funds in Nebraska. Paul and Stephanie Jarrett, Bulu Box’s husband and wife co-founders, moved their young company from San Francisco to Lincoln earlier this year, thanks in part to the lure of $100,000 in financing from a group of investors that included Dr. Jim and Karen…

  • Lincoln rebranding inspired by Archrival founders’”FLYOVER” talk

    Live music on downtown street corners every Friday. Fun and quirky messages written on the city’s bike paths. A random day of free downtown parking for all, courtesy of a local business. They’re all ideas that help …

  • From new Lincoln digs, Bulu Box launches subscription vitamin service

    When Paul Jarrett and his wife Stephanie decided to start Bulu Box last December, they could see Twitter’s headquarters from their Soma, Calif., apartment. But earlier this month when they launched the startup, a monthly and annual subscription service that provides sample boxes of vitamins and supplements, it was from their office in Lincoln, Neb.…