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Host Mike Maples Jr. from venture capital firm Floodgate offers lessons from the rare startup super performers — BEFORE they were successful.
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Max Mullen: How Instacart Solved the Problem of Grocery Delivery (opens the original)
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When Max Mullen was a teenager, he used his mother’s credit card to order some candy and soda off the internet from the online company Kozmo.com. Less than an hour later his order arrived, and Mullen was hooked on grocery delivery as a breakthrough idea that could make people's lives easier. But by the time Mullen became a startup founder years later, Kozmo, Webvan, and their peers were buried in a Dot-Com graveyard, and investors were skeptical that grocery delivery would ever resonate beyond S
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