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What does publicity from a half-marathon mean for Bulu Box?
It was among the more unconventional marketing plays for cash-strapped Midwest startups, but Bulu Box was all in for sponsoring the Good Life Halfsy, a new half-marathon in Lincoln. But not everyone was on board at first. “I think Paul hesitated a bit at first and I don’t blame him,” Stephanie Jarrett, Bulu Box’s co-founder…
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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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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…
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Wall Street Journal blog features four Nebraska “guest mentors”
The Wall Street Journal today is presenting four voices from Nerbaska’s startup community in a series that answers the question: “Can startups be successful anywhere in the U.S.?” Startup founders Ben Vu, Julie Malhoch and Stephanie Jarrett chime in along with entrepreneur-in-residence Brian Ardinger. “Make no doubt about it; some of the most talented and…
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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…
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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…
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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.…