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What Martin Short Knows About Drinks Strategy

What Martin Short Knows About Drinks Strategy

Strategic playbook for beverage founders covering fundraising benchmarks, distributor requirements, capital allocation ROI, and market expansion timing—actionable insights directly applicable to BevTech startups.

Monster Beverage Is Making More Money Than Its Brewing Division Can Lose

Monster's struggling alcohol division shows how even $90B CPG giants can fail at beverage diversification, offering strategic lessons on market entry, brand extensions, and the importance of spirits-based RTD portfolios.

Cocktail Menu Trends: What the Q2 Data Reveals

Ground Signal's data across 81K bars reveals challenger brands gaining share and cocktail menu fragmentation—actionable intelligence for BevTech founders on market trends and menu placement strategies.

Things I Believe About Drinks Entrepreneurship

Things I Believe About Drinks Entrepreneurship

Expert advice on avoiding common founder pitfalls like undercapitalization, lack of focus, and scaling too fast—critical tactical guidance for beverage startup founders.

Stop Proving the Wrong Things

Stop Proving the Wrong Things

Practical framework for beverage founders to focus on metrics that matter to investors and sustainable growth (velocity, retention, unit economics) vs vanity metrics.

8 Learnable Skills for the New Economy

8 Learnable Skills for the New Economy

Beverage sales professionals need modern skills like AI literacy, data analytics, and organizational psychology to stay competitive—practical toolkit for BevTech founders building sales teams or selling into the industry.

The Death of the Red Solo Cup

The Death of the Red Solo Cup

Identifies 'Desolofication' trend driving personalized beverage consumption, RTD growth, and alt-bev adoption—critical insights for product development and market positioning.