Rahal: Small-batch manufacturing enables CPG startups to bootstrap effectively
Peter Rahal · Live Episode! RXBAR: Peter Rahal · Aug 13, 2018 · at 35:21
RXBAR co-founder Peter Rahal discusses how bootstrapping production in small batches allowed the company to preserve cash and avoid raising outside capital.
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“The advantages to manufacturing and doing it in small batch is you keep your inventory really low. And so that's where your cash ultimately lays, and so we didn't really need to raise a lot of money because we, Made a hundred bars, and then went online and sold it.”
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