“Fortunately, the shelf life of Tofu goes nine months. So it gives us a little bit more wiggle room when it comes to storing the product in the warehouse and making sure it doesn't expire.”
Unit Economics · [TofuGo] Caroline Dai
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leveraged the 9-month shelf life of shelf-stable tofu to give extra buffer for inventory forecasting and avoid expiration risk
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“We did, in the past year, launch a shelf-stable product… I knew in order to grow it, we needed a shelf stable product so that we could get into retail and scale on Amazon.”
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Business model$2 million in sales from fresh-baked cookies (2018-2024)Share this moment
“We could do discounts and generate cash from our inventory… we pivoted to leverage the assets we had, which were inventory to generate cash.”
“We do run an annual investment plan… one-year horizon for risk positioning… five-year horizon… we have a portion of the portfolio that’s in illiquid assets… need the right buffer to avoid forced seller.”
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