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Turnaround or Transformation?
Turnaround or Transformation?
An interesting business issue I’ve come across while working with companies “in transition” is the confusion that comes…
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Stu Gold shared this📣 📣 ATTENTION SHOPPERS! 📣📣 Want to know what’s really in your food? This is the fastest way to find out. Download the app and try it yourself. 📲 Download the WISEcode app - start seeing behind the food label: https://wisecode.ai/app/Stu Gold shared thisGrocery shopping just changed forever: Introducing WISEcode UPF Detector! 💡 Our app is now focused on giving you instant clarity about whether a food is ultra-processed or not. With a simple scan, get a clear answer so you can make clear choices. WISEcode UPF Detector is powered by the world’s largest nutrition database NFP+ (that we developed, built by nutrition scientists and AI engineers). 🔍🦉 Download the WISEcode app - start seeing behind the food label: https://wisecode.ai/app/
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Stu Gold shared thisThe truth is we don't have a Healthcare Problem ... what we have is a complete "Food Information Crisis". The first step to solving this issue is having the best data in the world (think Bloomberg for food and nutrition); the second step is integrating the most advanced #AI ever delivered into the old school CPG industry; and the third step is delivering it in a clear and simple way that Elevates "Better for You" food brands, delivers immediate and clear value for consumers looking to understand "what's in my food" and "what should I eat" --- and then tying it all together with leading retailers across the country. I'd love to tell you more about how we're working with CPG Manufacturers, retailers and distributors to create more value for them all. Hit me up over LinkedIn messaging at Stu Gold to schedule a time to talk!Stu Gold shared thisDo you know what's in your food? "We have a food information crisis," says WISEcode CEO Peter Castleman, who wants to solve it by bringing clarity to nutrition panels in real time at the grocery aisle. We're showcasing our WISEcode UPF Detector app and Non-UPF Verification for food brands at Natural Products Expo, ACC Level 3 | Booth 8813. 🦉🔍 Learn more at wisecode.ai
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Stu Gold shared thisTHANK YOU to Ani Widham and the team at Nurtured with Nature for partnering with WISEcode to further elevate their amazing message as a "better for you" and NON-UPF VERIFIED brand! We loved having you in the WISEcode booth with us at the Natural Products Expo and are looking forward to continuing our exciting partnership. Be sure to check with the Nurtured With Nature Banana Bread Pancakes and Wild Blueberry Pancakes --- they are AWESOME!Stu Gold shared thisYou shouldn’t have to guess what you're buying at the grocery store. The WISEcode Non-UPF Verified Shield provides a clear answer right on the package, so you can choose (and eat!) with confidence. 🥞 We’re proud to share that Nurtured with Nature’s Banana Bread Pancakes and Wild Blueberry Pancakes now carry our WISEcode Non-UPF Verified Shield – the only comprehensive data standard for UPF. 🔊Food brands: Are your products free of ultra-processing? It’s time to show the world. 👉Get Non-UPF verified today: https://lnkd.in/ga9yFfPK
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Stu Gold shared thisAwesome to have the well known Food Influencer Kevin Escalera from @snackseatingsnacks and Moo'd Up stoping by the WISEcode booth at Expo West.Stu Gold shared thisFood creator Kevin Escalera (@SnacksEatingSnacks) discovered the WISEcode App at Expo West last week – and it has forever changed the way he grocery shops. With a simple scan, the WISEcode app delivers instant food clarity by capturing processing levels, additives, nutrient density, and science-backed data at an ingredient‑by-ingredient level. The best part, Kevin’s food brand Moo'd Up officially got verified as Non Ultra-Processed within minutes at our Natural Products Expo booth. 🍫🐮 We can confirm… Moo’d Up Chocolate Milk is delicious, nutritious, and non-ultra-processed. Ready to see what’s really inside your food? 👏 Download the WISEcode App: https://wisecode.ai/app/ #WISEcode #FoodInformationClarity #NonUPFDetectorApp
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Stu Gold shared thisTHANK YOU Tamar Garcia for making #ExpoWest the incredible (and super successful) event that it was. And great to bring the entire WISEcode team together in-person to work directly with some of the most exciting start-up food and beverage CPG's - along with many of the most forward thinking national and regional retailers - all in one place. With dozens of brands registering hundreds of their products with us DIRECTLY IN OUR BOOTH during the show ... we have been blown away and overwhelmed by the interest and momentum we're seeing. Not surprised, given what WISEcode has built combining the single largest food and ingredient DATABASE, the world's most advanced FOOD AI, and our proprietary "CODES" that makes it all easy to understand and use.Stu Gold shared thisLast day at Expo West! If you care about the food you eat, come visit Booth 8813 @ ACC (Lvl 3). #WISEcode #FoodClarity #ExpoWest Natural Products Expo
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Stu Gold shared thisShavawn M. Forester PhD RDN is the best! Crazy smart ... super nice ... incredibly knowledgable about all things FOOD SCIENCE & DATA. For CPG food brands ... why wait weeks (even MONTHS!) to find out if you're product is non-Ultra Processed. You don't need lengthy and expensive lab testing anymore (so OLD SCHOOL ... like carrying cash in your wallet to pay for groceries). You can find out immediately with WISEcode. Don't take my word for it --- ask the CPG brands already leveraging our Food Intelligence Platform, and the retailers leveraging our data for in-store merchandising decisions, and the government agencies who are already accepting our data + AI process as the most advanced (and fully accepted) in the industry.Stu Gold shared thisWhen our VP of Science, Shavawn M. Forester PhD RDN, approves a food product -- you can trust what you’re eating. Watch the incredible Shavawn demo the WISEcode App results for Mid-Day Squares PB&J Snack Bar: minimally processed, made with high-quality ingredients, and verified by our data as a Non-Ultra-Processed Food (Non-UPF). They’re delicious, too! This is what real food transparency looks like. Food brands, check if your product qualifies as Non-Ultra-Processed here: https://lnkd.in/gwXhWxQ5 #WISEcode #WISEcodeApp #NonUPFDetector #FoodClarity #NonUltraProcessedFood #NONUPF
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Stu Gold shared thisThank you to Eric Christianson and the team at Nutrient Survival for partnering with WISEcode! We are so excited to work with you in supporting the Nutrient Survival vision of "REAL FOOD. REAL NUTRITION. FOR REAL LIFE". Nutrient Survival is proving that it is possible to create delicious food powered by essential nutrients ... for true peak performance!Stu Gold shared thisLong shelf life doesn’t have to mean ultra-processed food. 💪 Nutrient Survival is committed to making nutrient-dense, shelf-stable foods. Their new line of real fruit crisps just earned the Non-UPF Verified Shield by WISEcode. 👉 Food brands, get verified by the only comprehensive UPF data standard: https://lnkd.in/ga9yFfPK
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Stu Gold shared thisSo many amazing partners for WISEcode so quickly --- and growing exponentially everyday! Why? Because we're helping CPG Founders get the exposure they need and deserve for their "better for you" products. It's not just another product verification process ... .... NOPE --- it's an entire program to help start-up and high-growth brands obtain more exposure with the retailers and distributors they want to be working with at virtually no cost. HOW DO WE DO IT --- contact me to discuss.Stu Gold shared thisWe’re proud to partner with brands like Amazi Foods, A'SMORE, Blue Zones Kitchen, Clean Dough Co., Good Grains Inc., Hardcore Peanut Butter Spread Co, Hotgirlsauce, I Eat My Greens, Moka Energy, Moo'd Up, NoRo Coffee, Nurtured with Nature, Nutrient Survival, OKO Food, Prest Foods, Rejuvenation Beverage Company, RINGA®, and the list continues. These incredible food Founders have products verified as non-ultra-processed by WISEcode and are raising the bar with high quality, minimally processed ingredients. WISEcode’s Non-UPF Verification Program helps products stand out with a credible, methodology-backed standard that’s built by 700+ nutrition scientists and powered by food intelligence. Earn the Non-UPF Verified Shield and give consumers what they’re looking for: real ingredient transparency. 🚀 If your products are formulated with integrity, it should be visible. See if your product earns WISEcode’s Non-UPF Verified Shield here: https://lnkd.in/gwXhWxQ5 #WISEcode #NonUPFVerifiedShield #FoodClarity #NonUltraProcessedFood
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Stu Gold shared thisThank you to Shannon Peffley for his huge SHOUTOUT to WISEcode and what we launched at the recent Natural Products Expo in Anaheim, CA. And we didn't just launch ... we've surpassed our initial growth expectations of non-UPF Verified Brands by over 500%, based solely on the value we're bringing to start-up and high growth "better for you" CPG food and beverage manufacturers. We're elevating these amazing Founders and Brands by providing them greater exposure and access and the recognition they deserve. Interested in how this can help drive more sales and revenue for your brand? Let's talk and I'll explain how fast, easy and inexpensive (under $100) the entire process is. #ExpoWest #FoodTransparency #AIStu Gold shared thisDid you see WISEcode at Expo? They were one of the more interesting companies I came across walking the floor. WISEcode is building an AI driven platform that looks far beyond the standard nutrition label. Instead of just showing calories and macros, their technology analyzes thousands of data points including ingredient quality, processing levels, additives, and overall nutritional composition. Think about that for a second. Consumers are standing in the grocery aisle trying to make a decision in a matter of seconds. Most labels barely scratch the surface of what is actually in the product. Platforms like WISEcode are trying to decode that complexity and turn it into something consumers can actually understand. The bigger trend here is transparency. Consumers want to know where ingredients come from. How foods are processed. What additives are included. The companies that help bring clarity to the food system are going to play a big role in where this industry goes next. Curious if anyone else saw them at Expo or has dug into what they’re building. Danny Webb✌️ Ryan Lupton Stu Gold Brad Dunshee Tolga Erdogus Noah Hyams Stephanie McGregor Manuel (Mac) Villarreal #CPG #FoodTech #ExpoWest #FoodTransparency #AI
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Stu Gold liked thisStu Gold liked thisIt is an interesting thing what skip-level conversation can provide You want to know who is posing a threat to your business from a competitor standpoint? You want to know what is going on in your team/organization? You want to know anything going on period, a skip-level gives you the opportunity to find out things from a perspective much closer to the action. You have enough of them, and you start to find a common theme. Unfortunately, many do not understand the great benefits it provides if executed correctly. Full Episode Here with Larry Satterfield giving a breakdown and shary below to help illustrate the value ▶️ https://lnkd.in/e6Ss5qwb
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Stu Gold liked thisStu Gold liked thisWhen I think about how Edited came to be, it doesn't start with an investment thesis. It starts the same way most things I've built have started, with a problem I couldn't stop thinking about. When we're at conferences, we describe Edited as a special situations lower middle market tech buyout firm, because that's the language the people we raise capital from recognize. But it never quite lands the way we want it to. I think it's because that description captures the solution we built, not the problem we were trying to solve. And those are very different things. I watched it happen to myself first, and then Ingrid and I kept watching it happen to founder after founder in our network. Once you couldn't raise your next round, you either faded away or ran out of road. No good options. No structured path forward. Just a slow unwinding of something that had real value in it. A gap completely foreseeable in a power law VC investment model, but one VCs have no incentive to solve. It turned out the solution to that problem was a private equity firm. Not the other way around. In software, product-market fit is the moment when what you've built maps so precisely onto a real need that customers don't need to be convinced. They find you. They tell you that what you're offering is exactly what they've been looking for and couldn't find anywhere else. People don't usually think about investment firms this way, but I think we should. What tells us we have it isn't our thesis. It's what founders say when we sit across from them. Not occasionally. Repeatedly, across different industries and different cap table configurations, founders who are trapped with a real business and nowhere to go say: this is exactly what I've been looking for. I couldn't find it anywhere. Any founder who has been in that moment knows the feeling. You know in your core that you've found it, even as you struggle to prove it to the people whose capital you need to scale. And that feeling is what all of us who are building something new and different rely on to keep going.
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Stu Gold liked thisStu Gold liked thisWe're hosting the first Stedi Platform Partner Demo Day – a 60-minute, live, online event – on Jun 2 at 3pm ET/12pm PT. Six of Stedi’s Platform Partners will demo RCM functionality they've built using Stedi’s APIs to an audience of developers, operators, and investors who work in and around healthcare technology. There will be a short Q&A at the end. The event is free. You can register to watch or apply to demo using the links in the comments.
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Stu Gold liked thisStu Gold liked this6 IPOs. 600,000 product leaders. A fund 3x the size of our last, twice. We built a way to read markets before they move and the market just confirmed it. The Wall Street Journal covered our oversubscribed Fund III today. TY Yuliya Chernova. Link in comment. We're just getting started. #venturecapital #innovation #siliconvalley
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Stu Gold liked thisStu Gold liked thisWe just attended our first American Burn Association Annual Meeting, and it exceeded every expectation. Burn surgeons, respiratory therapists, nurses, physical therapists… every conversation brought a different perspective on what better airway security could mean for their patients. What stood out most was how clinicians immediately recognized the impact the HORSESHOE™ can have on patient care. Our face-free, intraoral approach to airway security is an entirely new way of thinking about airway securement and the genuine curiosity and willingness to learn and explore was incredibly encouraging. It truly feels like we’re at the early edge of something big. Thank you to the burn care community for the openness, the thoughtful feedback, and the shared commitment to improving outcomes for such a complex and vulnerable patient population. #Ameriburn #BurnCare #AirwayManagement #MedTech #Surgicure #CriticalCare #HealthcareInnovation Irena King, PhD Shawn Walker
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Stu Gold liked thisStu Gold liked thisBecker’s Hospital Review is one of the outlets I’ve consistently turned to throughout my career, so being recognized on their “Great leaders in healthcare” list for 2026 is incredibly meaningful. I didn’t start Surgicure Technologies, Inc. to build another device. I started it to solve a problem I saw firsthand—one that continues to impact patient safety every day. Grateful for the team, clinicians, and partners who are pushing this work forward with us. Forever grateful. Thank you, Becker's Healthcare! Full article in comments. #beckers #healthcare #innovation #leadership #hospitals
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Stu Gold liked thisStu Gold liked thisMade some tests with the new GPT Image 2 model from OpenAI. I wouldn't say it outperforms Nano Banana 2, at least not for fashion and advertising production-ready, but its character consistency is really good.
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Stu Gold liked thisStu Gold liked this𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 I want to talk about two founders I met years ago and had the opportunity to mentor through the Techstars Boston Accelerator. Cristina Imperial Carl from Ediphi Lakshya Daga from TruLeague I was fortunate enough to introduce them to Techstars Boston Accelerator and work with them directly during the program. These two are the epitome of grind. Both are immigrants to the United States. Both are true bootstrappers. Both built their companies the hard way. No shortcuts. No fluff. Just execution. Cristina is on pace to do $𝟲𝗠 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿. Lakshya is on pace to do $𝟭𝗠 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿. But what stands out isn’t just the numbers. It’s the humility. It’s the consistency. It’s the willingness to keep going when things get hard (and they always do). This is what people don’t talk about enough. Success in startups isn’t just about the idea. It’s about showing up every single day and doing the work, even when nobody is watching. Cristina and Lakshya are exactly that. 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲.
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