Introducing Office Hours
As an added benefit for being part of our community, the KitchenTown Learning Lab is launching Office Hours, an occasional format where we provide access for you to have one-on-one meetings with experts from across the food industry.

Meet with PieShell Founder + CEO Cheryl Clements
If you have a great food product, service, technology platform or hospitality idea and you’re thinking about launching a crowdfunding campaign in the next 12 months, sit down with PieShell Founder and CEO Cheryl Clements for a 45-minute one-on-one.

Launched in 2016, PieShell is a food and beverage–specific crowdfunding platform that brings a new approach to funding food and beverage projects of all kinds. While other platforms see high fail rates for these kinds of campaigns, PieShell’s innovative model includes stepping stones (built-in stretch goals), project incubation through best practices, and a growing community of funders dedicated to supporting innovative ideas in food. With nearly 40 projects in the pipeline, PieShell is projecting $500K in funding in its first year, with a 100 percent success rate.

For those with more general questions who just want to understand the basics of crowdfunding in today's environment, join us for a short presentation with Q&A at 7:00 pm.