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Among the companies we love here at Green Living Ideas is an international tea wholesaler called Tealet. The company was founded by a Elyse Petersen, who completed her MBA at the University of Hawaii and who was a leader of the Net Impact chapter there.
Tealet founder Elyse Petersen tells how her MBA paper on growing a tea industry in Hawaii became a fast-growing online business -- with a little help from Honolulu Startup Weekend, Dave McClure's 500 Startups, and Henk Roger's Blue Startups!
Hawaiian-style tea doesn't necessarily mean Hawaii-grown. For example, Hawaiian Islands Tea Company offers the flavors hibiscus honey lemon, coconut macadamia and mango Maui. However, these blends are only processed here. Does it matter that the...
With all the subtleties of tea, it is difficult to parse through third-party marketing and find the truth. A web platform called Tealet is producing a model that brings the grower's story and information directly to the consumer. Hear from...
Robert Scoble takes a few minutes to speak with Elyse Petersen, founder of Tealet
Launch has a little something for everyone in the startup world.Thousands of entrepreneurs, influencers, developers, designers, public relations people, booth babes and investors are attending the Launch festival and everyone is searching for...
I arrived back in San Francisco last night with a head full of startups. I spent yesterday in Mountain View covering 500 Startups Demo Day. There, I listened (and wrote furiously) as 29 startups pitched to a room filled with entrepreneurs,...
Winner of the Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year award is Elyse Petersen, founder of Tealet, a social enterprise that connects tea drinkers with small tea growers around the world. David Watumull, co-founder of CARDAX Pharmaceuticals and former
Tealet.com let's you purchase a subscription that keeps quality direct from the source teas coming to your door all year. Perhaps it's a bit of a stretch to assume that the 'Netflix' model is in some way an after affect of advances in quantum...
Look for more multi-brand tea marketplaces. There are already a few in existence, like Teatrade and Tealet. Some of these could become a valuable destination, while others will be complete disasters. I have to site Teatrade as a near-total clusterf%*k. Wo
Tealet is a direct from grower ecommerce marketplace and subscription model that allows U.S. tea drinkers to connect with teas from around the world. Growers post their stories and teas while drinkers browse, review and purchase teas. This social ecommerc
I never really appreciated tea until I lived in the United Kingdom. That country loves their tea. And fair enough, tea is awesome, especially the traditions, cultivation and global trade associated with it. That's why entrepreneur Elyse Petersen...
Subscription startups are blowing up these days. It seems there's a subscription service or subscription box for just about anything (and everything). We've reported on, or interviewed, quite a few here at nibletz,...
Startup investors from Geeks On A Plane flew to Honolulu and judged local food tech companies that combine cuisine with social media and technology. Which ones did they like? Watch and see!
250 years ago, tea was all the rage in America – a simple tax on the leaves inspired a riot that left a whole lot of it at the bottom of Boston Harbor. From there, the brew sunk further, with the market being overtaken by tasteless industrial o...
Tealet, a Honolulu-based direct-from-grower startup, has joined the fall class of 500 Startups, a prominent Silicon Valley finance accelerator that provides offices, technical support and hands-on guidance.
Green, black, white, or flavored, all tea is from one plant, whose culture and history span the globe. In Hawai'i, there are now 19 established growers and more on the horizon. HPR's Noe Tanigawa talked with a young entrepreneur who is looking to...
Small farms often struggle to compete with industrial agriculture. Big Ag, using GMO seeds and loads and loads of chemicals, can crank out high yields and depress prices to the point that small farmers are often pushed to the brink of bankruptcy if they t
