Team Building and Recruiting for Food Companies

Event Summary:

Join us for an evening focused on team building and recruiting talent for food startups.

The most important factor contributing to the success of food companies is the composition and talent of the team. We all know how challenging it can be to identify, recruit and build talented teams to support our ideas, develop our products, and work in unison to achieve a common goal for our companies. This event will connect people who want to work at food companies with executives and founders who are recruiting people to join their teams.

NOTE: you MUST PURCHASE TICKETS HERE (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/team-building-and-recruiting-for-food-companies-tickets-14407600521) to attend this event, thanks!

Date: December 4th / 6:00PM - 8:00PM / Thursday

Format:

We will feature CEOs and Founders of food companies who will pitch their companies in front of the audience so they can attract new team members. We recommend sharing your vision, business model, customer traction, and other metrics and developments that will inspire members of the audience to come speak with you. Following company pitches, we will form groups so people can connect directly to companies.

Guidelines for participating:

1. Participating companies and entrepreneurs will get 3 min (max) to pitch their company or startup to recruit talented members in the audience.

2. Participating companies should send a message (via Meetup) including a 2-3 sentence description of your company, what kind of talent you want to recruit (e.g. designer, marketer, etc.), a URL link to your website, your contact info (name, job title, email, and phone number).

3. We have 1 hour for all pitches. Since each pitch will be 3 min (max), this means that we will select 20 companies (max) to participate.

4. We will review requests on a rolling basis and do our best to accommodate as many companies who wish to pitch, based on time constraints.

5. Selected companies must submit a visual presentation (ppt or keynote) with 5 slides (max including cover slide) before the event in order to participate.

6. Please RSVP and book tickets ASAP to reserve your spot to attend and/or pitch your company to recruit talented members of the group.

Schedule:

6:00PM: Attendees arrive & check in

6:00PM - 6:30PM: Networking with beer and wine

6:30PM - 7:30PM: Participating companies and CEOs will pitch to the audience

7:30PM - 8:00PM: More networking with beer and wine

List of Companies Pitching:

1. Buyer's Best Friend

2. Goodeggs

3. Delicious Nutritious

4. Viapep

5. LOKL

6. GreenLid Smoothies

7. KOOEE Super Snacks

8. SF Yogurt Company

9. Sweetheart Cupcakes

10. There will be many other companies in the room

This event is for:

This event is for (1) company executives interested recruiting new team members and (2) entrepreneurs and (3) founders who are looking to find teammates, and (4) talented professionals (e.g. marketers, community managers, engineers, designers) who are looking to join food companies, and (5) food lovers and food innovators who want to explore opportunities with food companies.

• If you're an executive or CEO of a food company, then this is a great opportunity to gain insights on team building and connect with potential candidates that might be a good fit for your company.

• If you're a founder of a food startup looking to find a cofounder, then this could be the ideal event to connect you with fellow food and technology innovators and find new team members.

• If you're a talented professional or food lover, then this is a great opportunity to connect firsthand with founders, CEOs, and executives to learn about their food and technology companies and explore opportunities to join their team.

BIG THANKS to our venue and beer sponsor! = WeWork Golden Gate (https://www.wework.com/locations/san-francisco/golden-gate)

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WeWork Labs is a leading community and coworking center in the heart of SoMa. The community members at WeWork Labs run the gamut - startups, entrepreneurs, designers, developers, small businesses, freelancers, writers, independent film makers, you name it. One thing they all share is an entrepreneurial spirit. Being a part of this powerful community helps them achieve much more together than they could individually. WeWork Labs is on mission to build a community that empowers people everywhere to do what they love. .

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BIG THANKS to our media and promotional sponsor! = Bon Appétech (http://www.bonappetech.com)

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