Paul Jarrett

  • 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…

  • 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 …

  • 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…

  • 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.…