The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanFrom Crypto-Native to Crypto-Enabled
I’m not one to make big annual predictions, but one thing that seems likely to me is that 2024 will mark the emergence of mainstream apps powered by ...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanBitcoin as Battery
One of my favorite things about crypto is that, every so often, your conception of what it is changes.Bitcoin at first was "weird internet money...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanThe Internet's Next Business Model: A Conversation with Cloudflare's Matthew Prince
I just released a new episode of The Slow Hunch with Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare. Since we invested in their Series C back in 2013, I've watched Matthew and his team build one of the most critical pieces of internet infrastructure—protecting and accelerating vast portions of global web traffic. Our conversation traces Matthew's journey from his early "slow hunch" that the internet was fundamentally broken and needed fixing. We start with his law school days in 2000, when ...
Here at TOPP, we've been using Fresh Direct for a while now for our office groceries (even while being critical of them on one of our blogs). It's easy -- we can order online and have food delivered right to the office. However, the packaging Fresh Direct uses is really outrageous; items are delivered in cardboard boxes, and are packed as if they're traversing the Atlantic, with on or two items per box surrounded by layers upon layers of packaging and padding. No longer. This week, we switched to Max Delivery, a service that offers same day delivery of many products within Manhattan. Max Delivery is a hybrid of Fresh Direct and Urban Fetch/Kozmo -- offering a full online catalog of staples as well as select items from NYC merchants. The kicker (for us at least) is their reusable bag program. Instead of packed boxes, they deliver using reusable shopping bags, with no extra packaging. Simply pay a $1.50 deposit for each bag, and return them upon next pickup. In between deliveries, you're free to use the bags for your own shopping. To boot, the grocery prices are lower at Max Delivery than at Fresh Direct (or so I'm told).
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Here at TOPP, we've been using Fresh Direct for a while now for our office groceries (even while being critical of them on one of our blogs). It's easy -- we can order online and have food delivered right to the office. However, the packaging Fresh Direct uses is really outrageous; items are delivered in cardboard boxes, and are packed as if they're traversing the Atlantic, with on or two items per box surrounded by layers upon layers of packaging and padding. No longer. This week, we switched to Max Delivery, a service that offers same day delivery of many products within Manhattan. Max Delivery is a hybrid of Fresh Direct and Urban Fetch/Kozmo -- offering a full online catalog of staples as well as select items from NYC merchants. The kicker (for us at least) is their reusable bag program. Instead of packed boxes, they deliver using reusable shopping bags, with no extra packaging. Simply pay a $1.50 deposit for each bag, and return them upon next pickup. In between deliveries, you're free to use the bags for your own shopping. To boot, the grocery prices are lower at Max Delivery than at Fresh Direct (or so I'm told).
Subscribe to The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman
Investing @ USV. Student of cities and the internet.
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanFrom Crypto-Native to Crypto-Enabled
I’m not one to make big annual predictions, but one thing that seems likely to me is that 2024 will mark the emergence of mainstream apps powered by ...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanBitcoin as Battery
One of my favorite things about crypto is that, every so often, your conception of what it is changes.Bitcoin at first was "weird internet money...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanThe Internet's Next Business Model: A Conversation with Cloudflare's Matthew Prince
I just released a new episode of The Slow Hunch with Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare. Since we invested in their Series C back in 2013, I've watched Matthew and his team build one of the most critical pieces of internet infrastructure—protecting and accelerating vast portions of global web traffic. Our conversation traces Matthew's journey from his early "slow hunch" that the internet was fundamentally broken and needed fixing. We start with his law school days in 2000, when ...
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