StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 109 OneOr100 is a food retailer which sells all products in packages of exactly 1 kg or 100 grams, and liquids of exactly 1 litre or 100 ml. This simplifies price comparison for customers and inventory management for store employees. The most challenging products for the company are eggs, fruit and vegetables: two medium-sized eggs of 50 grams each are glued together to form a 100-gram packaged unit; while fruit and vegetables which cannot fit the 100-gram requirement are sold chopped up and packaged. CEO QUOTE "The shopping experience at a regular supermarket can be quite intimidating for many customers. We make shopping simpler and more fun. Our 1-kg jumbo packages also offer significant savings, so we encourage customers who have storage capacity at home to buy in 1-kg units, which also reduces paper and plastic packaging and the impact on the environment," said OneOr100 founder and CEO Oneal Hund. US supermarket (image source: Wikipedia ...

StartupRealities No 83 MoonDust is a space technology and memorabilia company which plans to launch a single uncrewed mission to the surface of the Moon to bring moon dust back to Earth in 2023. The company is taking pre-orders in a crowdfunding campaign and plans to retrieve one tonne of moon material with a retail price of USD 10 billion. STATISTICS Limited amounts of lunar samples (moon soil / moon rock) have ever been brought back to Earth. NASA has 382 kg of moon material brought back in the Apollo 11 to Apollo 17 missions (1969-1972) but none of this is for sale. The former Soviet Union has less than a kilogram, collected with robotic probes in missions in 1970-1976. PRICE NASA estimated in 2003 that its cost of retrieval of the lunar samples was USD 50,800 per gram (in 1973 dollars), which would equal USD 308,000 per gram in 2020 dollars. According to a 2018  article in The Washington Post, 0.2 grams of Soviet lunar soil were sold at auction in 1993 at a price of US...