Now you may argue that there are social and health benefits to having handicapped people doing useful (if inefficient work) and that's a perfectly legitimate argument to make. But the fact of the matter is that such subsidies, while ethically or even socially positive do not have a positive ROI in financial terms, hence they are by definition a hand out.
That doesn't really address the issue as much as it acknowledges it.
It's like someone is pointing out a hole in the bottom of the boat, and the captain looks at it and says "yes, there's a hole in the bottom". A good thing to be sure, but not one that actually fixes the issue,...
Revenue grew from $8k to $150k in two years. You have no idea if this is a viable business, but the market seems to like it. They clearly in scaling mode:
==Peaceful Fruits is in the middle of a production expansion to 5x capacity so that we can hit breakeven levels and beyond.==
It used to be that this model was common for charity startups and I was sort of ok with that. Uninspired... but ok. Its a bit of wealth transfer capitalism-style, and at least then the profits do to go to help someone in need, maybe by donating back to the people with disabilities, or building infrastructure in the Amazon. But this is just nah we'll keep 100% of the profits ourselves instead! Innovation!
- Find a packaged product with raw material sourced from an "on-trend" country (founder's words), buy at market prices, claim to be "creating opportunities" there in a vague way.
- Find laborers subsidized by grants to do the packaging, use this to apply for your own grants. Enjoy "the incredible feel-good aspects of providing jobs" (founder's words) with subsidized labor costs. Also enjoying "effectively ... zero-interest loans" is a nice benefit as well. PROTIP - If you automate away those same workers once you have used them to bootstrap the business you can still use the pictures in your origin story PR pieces.
- Target "higher-income consumers with the values and means to vote with their dollars - whether that’s in support of high-quality food, progressive community development, or both." (founder's words) to avoid having to justify a premium-priced but ultimately commoditized product.
- Do a kickstarter, not because its necessary to get product validation, just because "the most concrete, useful lesson is definitely that nearly anyone has a $10,000 crowdfunding campaign in them."
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[ 0.18 ms ] story [ 44.0 ms ] threadThe world doesn't need more shit for rich people. That literally tells me you're ignorant and have a terrible sense of "values"
500 dollars worth of revenue per employee per month? This is not a viable business.
Now you may argue that there are social and health benefits to having handicapped people doing useful (if inefficient work) and that's a perfectly legitimate argument to make. But the fact of the matter is that such subsidies, while ethically or even socially positive do not have a positive ROI in financial terms, hence they are by definition a hand out.
The founder also addressed more on this in this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/EntrepreneurRideAlong/comments/9pbf...
It's like someone is pointing out a hole in the bottom of the boat, and the captain looks at it and says "yes, there's a hole in the bottom". A good thing to be sure, but not one that actually fixes the issue,...
==Peaceful Fruits is in the middle of a production expansion to 5x capacity so that we can hit breakeven levels and beyond.==
- Find a packaged product with raw material sourced from an "on-trend" country (founder's words), buy at market prices, claim to be "creating opportunities" there in a vague way.
- Find laborers subsidized by grants to do the packaging, use this to apply for your own grants. Enjoy "the incredible feel-good aspects of providing jobs" (founder's words) with subsidized labor costs. Also enjoying "effectively ... zero-interest loans" is a nice benefit as well. PROTIP - If you automate away those same workers once you have used them to bootstrap the business you can still use the pictures in your origin story PR pieces.
- Target "higher-income consumers with the values and means to vote with their dollars - whether that’s in support of high-quality food, progressive community development, or both." (founder's words) to avoid having to justify a premium-priced but ultimately commoditized product.
- Do a kickstarter, not because its necessary to get product validation, just because "the most concrete, useful lesson is definitely that nearly anyone has a $10,000 crowdfunding campaign in them."