James Robinson & Juliene Sinclairwww.mygreentraveler.com

The reusable food container to take everywhere!

Photo courtesy of Joey Hiller

Owners

James Robinson, IV

~BS, Energy Engineering

~Student, MBA

~Energy advisor to City Council

~Two successful start-ups

Juliene Sinclair

~Student, Environmental Engineering

~Knowledgeable in solid waste management

~Prior zero-waste coordinator, HSU

~Tri-lingual

Product

Photo courtesy of Joey Hiller

Market Opportunity

World food container industry:

• $124 billion market in 2013

• 3.8% world demand growth through 2018

“The US is by far the largest user of food containers.” -Freedonia Group (2010)

Partners & Collaborators

•Manufacturers

• Epsilon Industries, Chino, CA

• Aim Processing, Longmont, CO

•Immediate retailers

• Local stores

• Grocery

• Outdoor

• Houseware & hardware

•Future retailers

Market Penetration

• Marketing Plan

• Access Humboldt

• Website

• Publications

• Display racks

• Sales

• Just us

• Regional sales representative

• Distribution

• Humboldt warehouse National distributors

Potential Barriers• Costs

• Start-up

• Patent

• Marketing

• Concerns

• Product

• Manufacturers

• Sales contractors

• Competition

Competition

Financials

Financials

Financials

Financial Plan

• $77,000 needed ($65,000 for start-up, $12,000 for operations)

• $25,000 from Economic Fuel

• $12,000 from Family

• $40,000 from Other

• Other potential funding sources

• Maverick Angels

• Sundance Institute

• Echoing Green

• Kickstarter.com

Benefits

• Humboldt County

• Income injection

• Employment

• Recognition

• Investors

• ROI 2-3x in 5 years

• Environment

• Reduce disposables

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Advisors

• Janet DePace

• Founder & Owner, Yakima Products

• Founder, Fire & Light Glass

• Business advisor, Eureka SBDC

• Nancy Vizenor

• Lecturer, Ph.D HSU

• Locally Delicious

• Authors

• Networkers

• Christophe Febvre

• Owner, DGCD Computer Hardware

• Alan Tratner

• Director, Green2Gold

• Lonny Grafman

• Lecturer

• Inventor

• Founder, Appropedia

Juliene Sinclairjuliene@mygreentraveler.com

Thank You!

Questions?

James Robinsonjames@mygreentraveler.com

Owners

James Robinson, IV

~BS, Energy Engineering

~Student, MBA

~Energy advisor to City Council

~Two successful start-ups

Juliene Sinclair

~Student, Environmental Engineering

~Knowledgeable in solid waste management

~Prior zero-waste coordinator, HSU

~Tri-lingual

Product

Photo courtesy of Joey Hiller

Market Opportunity

World food container industry:

• $124 billion market in 2013

• 3.8% world demand growth through 2018

“The US is by far the largest user of food containers.” -Freedonia Group (2010)

Partners & Collaborators

•Manufacturers

• Epsilon Industries, Chino, CA

• Aim Processing, Longmont, CO

•Immediate retailers

• Local stores

• Grocery

• Outdoor

• Houseware & hardware

•Future retailers

Market Penetration

• Marketing Plan

• Access Humboldt

• Website

• Publications

• Display racks

• Sales

• Just us

• Regional sales representative

• Distribution

• Humboldt warehouse National distributors

Potential Barriers• Costs

• Start-up

• Patent

• Marketing

• Concerns

• Product

• Manufacturers

• Sales contractors

• Competition

Competition

Financials

Financials

Financials

Financial Plan

• $77,000 needed ($65,000 for start-up, $12,000 for operations)

• $25,000 from Economic Fuel

• $12,000 from Family

• $40,000 from Other

• Other potential funding sources

• Maverick Angels

• Sundance Institute

• Echoing Green

• Kickstarter.com

Benefits

• Humboldt County

• Income injection

• Employment

• Recognition

• Investors

• ROI 2-3x in 5 years

• Environment

• Reduce disposables

worldsbestinformation.org