TOP 30 FOOD INVESTORS BLOG!

If you own a small business, you’re likely quite familiar with long work days (and nights), extreme juggling, and the questionably-fashionable donning of many, many hats. One of those hats is surely marketing, and for some of us, that includes maintaining a blog. But blogging isn’t always easy (or quick…the first 50 words of this post have taken about a half-hour to write!), but you do it because you feel like you have something to share that someone might find useful.

Turns out one category of those someones is food investors – at least according to the panelists (and algorithms) at Feedspot. The popular feed reading platform has selected the Upstart Food Brands blog as one of 2018’s top 30 Food Investors Blogs on the web! Number 28 to be exact. We’re super proud of this distinction, and honored to be included on a list with the likes of The Good Food Institute, the New Hope Network, Start Your Food Business, Food-X, and Food Tech Connect!

Thanks to Feedspot and to everyone who visits our site, reads our posts, and finds some value in the content we create!

Josh Schipkowski

Josh Schipkowski is the founder and chief creative officer of Upstart Food Brands, a St. Louis-based branding agency for startup and emerging food, beverage, pet food, and supplement companies. He spent almost 14 years helping build MarketPlace into one of the country’s leading food marketing agencies before launching Upstart in 2015 to give smaller brands top-agency strategy and creative that make every dollar of their investment count. As CCO, he oversees everything creative and strategic that leaves the agency, from naming, brand strategy, and identity development to packaging and web design and development. At home, he does a self-reported 93.25% of the cooking, usually from scratch, often trying a new technique, and frequently using products from Upstart’s own clients. He also grows hops, grapes, and cider apples for brewing, winemaking, and cider, mostly as an excuse to share great food and drink with friends and family.