Benchmark's Bill Gurley is joining Good Eggs' board of directors.
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Good eggs and a few tasty additions are all you need.
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Other brands were more familiar, like Victoria's Secret Pink, Good Eggs or AARP.
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Saturday Night Live cast members Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney are good eggs.
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Let's hope their road trip at least included some damn good eggs Benedict.
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Plenty's indoor-farmed arugula retails for $1.10 per ounce on Good Eggs and Instacart.
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On the whole, though, Fox says most riders he encounters are already good eggs.
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In recent years, Good Eggs seemed like anything but an obvious startup to bet on.
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Bentley Hall held several senior executive roles at Plum Organics prior to joining Good Eggs.
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And the good eggs at King Arthur have an excellent recipe for those Anzac cookies.
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Even e-grocers like Fresh Direct and Good Eggs are starting to offer meal kits now.
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He compared Good Eggs to Etsy's online marketplace for hand-made gifts, accessories and other items.
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They're good eggs, these millennials, each earnestly trying to figure out what it means to build a meaningful life.
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Good Eggs, a San Francisco-based online grocery for fresh products, has raised $50 million in new VC funding.
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Americans have loved brunch for a long time — and a good eggs Benedict is part of the reason why.
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He is a Director of AgilOne, Clever, Dropbox, Elevate, Good Eggs, Hearsay Social, Inkling, Qualtrics, Thanx, Thumbtack, TuneIn and VarageSale.
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Corrections & clarifications: Rob Spiro is an advisor to Good Eggs but not a chairman with the company as previously stated.
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Good Eggs, the food delivery service that promises "absurdly fresh" groceries and meal kits, has raised $50 million in new funding.
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One company he's invested in, Good Eggs, delivers meal kits made from food produced locally (it got its start delivering groceries).
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Good Eggs laid off staff and shut down operations outside of San Francisco, then brought in a new CEO in December.
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Hall said the service has become people's "primary food supplier," with the average customer ordering from Good Eggs more than once a week.
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Close to home, San Francisco-based organic food delivery startup Good Eggs went through a change in leadership, layoffs and general belt-tightening.
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Good Eggs, an organic grocery delivery service, laid off more than 100 employees and shuttered its offices outside its San Francisco headquarters in August.
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He said while not all of Good Eggs' previous backers were in the new round, many were, including Index Ventures, which led the round.
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Hall said the result is an average Good Eggs order that is north of $100, and an average customer that orders multiple times a week.
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I wasn't on tv today, and I'm not sure when I will be again, but instead I got to hang with these two good eggs.
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That might sound vague, but it led to more concrete "trickle effects," like quadrupling the number of products that Good Eggs sells to more than 1,000.
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Then there was the public-facing Plenty — the one that sold lettuce that people can currently buy from retailers such as Good Eggs and Bi-Rite.
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Two startups in sectors not known for pulling in money raised pretty big rounds this past week: Food delivery service Good Eggs and the mobile gaming company Scopely.
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"I get why new food processing systems that increase shelf life may be good for Amazon," Bentley Hall, CEO of fresh-food delivery service Good Eggs, told Reuters.
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Before the market, Ms. Reggie helped create Cleaver and Company, a butcher shop, and the New Orleans branch of Good Eggs, the San Francisco organic food delivery company.
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Google Express, Good Eggs, FreshDirect, Postmates, and Instacart also deliver groceries on demand, in addition to grocers, like Safeway and Vons, that have their own in-house services.
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Just in the past few months, Twitter, Gumroad, Tinder, Groupon, Jawbone, Good Eggs, HotelTonight, and Zomato have all announced layoffs, in some cases amounting to hundreds of people.
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"Our team was deeply impressed by the operational discipline that Bentley and the team at Good Eggs have implemented to transform this business," Gurley said in the funding announcement.
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With the new funds, Good Eggs expects to slowly expand its reach — going after what it believes will be at least a $7 billion online grocery market in California alone.
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She was unable to get access to her fertility coverage through her employer even though she had a diagnosis of diminished ovarian reserve (otherwise known as "not enough good eggs").
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Since then, Good Eggs has focused on building strong unit economics by, in part, focusing on a customer base in a single metro area and operating out of a single warehouse.
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Investors expect Good Eggs to focus on scaling in the Bay Area near-term and beyond it longer-term, hiring, and maintaining a high, average order value among customers, Rimer said.
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A San Francisco startup that many people assumed was toast, Good Eggs, has raised $15 million in a new round of venture funding led by Index Ventures to expand its online, organic grocery business first in the San Francisco Bay Area, and later across the U.S. In recent years, Good Eggs tried to ramp up its eco- and farm-friendly grocery business only to face logistics problems, high costs and lagging customer satisfaction in some markets.
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The good eggs were biting their tongues while the bad eggs were gleefully announcing the details of Dumbledore's death, arguably the juiciest spoiler fodder the franchise had offered up to that point.
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She sold her interest in the butcher shop, which is now closed, and Good Eggs subsequently shut its operations in New York, Los Angeles and New Orleans to focus on its home base.
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Good Eggs investors also declined to comment on terms of the new venture funding round, including whether or not the company has taken a "down round," or lower valuation than it had previously.
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In 2015, Good Eggs suddenly ended deliveries in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and New Orleans after just one year; Farmstr, started with much fanfare in Seattle in 2013, also closed up shop in 2015.
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Plenty's salads sell on organic grocery delivery site Good Eggs for 99 cents an ounce, while a leading brand, Organic Girl, on grocery chain Safeway's online site was priced at 80 cents an ounce.
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Last year, the local food delivery service Good Eggs shut down operations in three of their four regions; Google Shopping Express is shutting down its two delivery hubs; Foodpanda,TinyOwl and Zomato are struggling to manage their burn rates.
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As it does, Good Eggs will find itself competing for customers with the local farmers market, as well as giant competitors like Amazon and Whole Foods and heavily funded startups such as Instacart, which has raised $1 billion in investor money.
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Index Ventures' Danny Rimer said his firm upped its investment in Good Eggs because the company has improved its operations, churn and "basket" size, and can consistently deliver with the level of service quality it needs to support expansion now.
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And thanks to the Good Eggs model, where the company buys directly from local farmers and producers, customers don't have to worry about sending a delivery person to the supermarket only to discover that the product they want isn't available.
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For example, Good Eggs and Farmdrop deliver fresh and sustainably sourced grocery food in reusable packaging, while Full Harvest encourages the food supply chain to "shop ugly" by using imperfect or surplus produce that would have otherwise gone to waste.
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Gurley's venture capital firm, Benchmark, has led a new $50 million investment in Good Eggs, an online grocer that delivers a wide range of organic and locally sourced produce, meats, meal kits and alcohol to customers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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With the new funds, Good Eggs expects to slowly expand its reach both within the Bay Area and eventually to Southern California next year — going after what it believes will be at least a $7 billion online grocery market in California alone.
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Good Eggs faces a huge amount of competition in its quest to link customers who'd fall into the "picky eater" and "foodie" category to all the vegan, gluten-free, paleo-friendly and other ingredients that they crave from local farms and sustainable producers.
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While Good Eggs founder and former CEO Rob Spiro, an ex-Googler, has stayed on in the capacity of a company adviser, the company is now led by long time food and consumer packaged goods executive Bentley Hall who joined the startup late last year.
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And just last month he announced a new deal that some industry insiders read as a message that he isn't stepping away from the hustle just yet: A $25 million check into Good Eggs, a get-your-hands-dirty attempt to restructure an online grocer that recently almost went bankrupt.
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" Gurley, on the other hand, acknowledges the threat — "I have the utmost respect for Amazon" — but believes the online grocery market will be big enough in the U.S. for a variety of players including Good Eggs, which he believes will attract "a subset of the population that is hyper passionate and emotional about food.
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Why it's a big deal: Because this one of few startups that seems to have come out the other side of a massive restructuring, which included a financial recap, layoffs, market closures, top management changes and a realization that Good Eggs is a food biz enabled by tech rather than a tech company involved with food.
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Hall said he believes the startup has an advantage over other players in the space thanks to the software that Spiro and the early Good Eggs team built to run the business including, especially, an app that helps the company conduct speedy sorting, tracking, packing and shipping of a high volume of goods from a wide variety of farms and local vendors.
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Well, the book, Perform, was released and it included a pretty unusual tip for spotting the good eggs in an offensive line batch (hint: it has to do with ketchup [see: headline]): For those of you who don't want to dive too deep into a jpeg about salty tomato-paste, here's what it says: So let's get this straight: Dude chooses his football players based on how they pour ketchup?
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Writing about the death of delivery service SpoonRocket and attrition across other "conveniencetech" startups, Constine scribbled: Many conveniencetech startups have suffered hard times since a public and late-stage market correction hit this year: India's Ola shut down its on-demand food delivery service; Zirx is moving away from on-demand valet; and other services, like Good Eggs grocery delivery, have been forced to implement layoffs and scale back from new markets.
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The Orphan Bird (also known as the Orphanay or Rafanay) is a legendary bird from medieval bestiaries. It had a peacock's neck, an eagle's beak, a swan's feet, and a crane's body. It would lay its eggs in the sea. The good eggs would float, while the bad eggs would sink.
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Fishkill Farms' 130 acre property offers U-pick services for produce including blueberries, blackberries, cherries, peaches, nectarines, pears and vegetables. Pasture- raised hens also produce eggs for the farm. It also sells produce in Brooklyn farmers markets and an order-fulfillment service called Good Eggs. The farm offers community-supported agriculture shares for Hudson Valley residents.
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At Benchmark, Gurley has led investments in and holds board seats on Brighter, DogVacay, Good Eggs, GrubHub, HackerOne, Linden Lab, LiveOps, Nextdoor, OpenTable, Sailthru, Scale Computing, Stitch Fix, Vessel, and Zillow. In April 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported that Gurley is stepping back from Benchmark as he was no longer taking part of a new fund that his venture-capital firm was raising.
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He was a co-founder of the search engine Aardvark, Perspecta, and Novation Biosciences. He was also In-House Philosopher/Director of Engineering at Google. He serves on the Board of Advisors for a small portfolio of mission-driven startup companies, including Good Eggs, Source4Style, and AltSchool, where he also held an interim position as Chief Academic Officer. Horowitz teaches courses in philosophy, AI, and cognitive science at NYU, Stanford, Columbia, U Penn, and San Quentin State Prison.
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