Enhancing the Flavor Profile of Your Wine, One Bottle at a Time

For this episode of Art of the Kickstart, we caught up with Clyde Snodgrass, founder of Vino Novo, the wine-enhancing solution. Tune in to learn more about how he used his product development background, networking abilities and entrepreneurial skills to bring his product to life. Topics Discussed and Key Crowdfunding Takeaways How to build a team and network as an entrepreneur Incorporating voice control into a crowdfunding project and weighing the necessity of building an additional app What to consider when determining potential stretch goals How he gathered user feedback and tested his product through grassroots efforts before venturing into crowdfunding What he took into consideration when determining the best crowdfunding agency for his business and his product Links Vino Novo on Kickstarter Dark Matter Sponsors Art of the Kickstart is honored to be sponsored by The Gadget Flow, a product discovery platform that helps you discover, save, and buy awesome products. The Gadget Flow is the ultimate buyer's guide for cool luxury gadgets and creative gifts. Click here to learn more and list your product - use coupon code ATOKK16 for 20% off! Transcript View this episode's transcript Roy: Welcome to Art of the Kickstart, your source for crowdfunding campaign success. I’m your host, Roy Morejon, president of Enventys Partners, the top full service turnkey product development and crowdfunding marketing agency in the world. We have helped startups raise over $100 million for our clients since 2010. Each week, I’ll interview a crowdfunding success story, an inspirational entrepreneur, or a business expert in order to help you take your startup to the next level with crowdfunding. Art of the Kickstart is honored to be sponsored by BackerKit, and The Gadget Flow. BackerKit makes software that crowdfunding project creators use to survey backers, organize data, and manage orders for fulfillment by automating your operations and helping you print and ship faster. The Gadget Flow is a product discovery platform that helps you discover, save and buy awesome products. It is the ultimate buyer’s guide for cool luxury gadgets and creative gifts. Now let’s get on with the show. Welcome to another edition of art of the kickstart. Today I am joined with Clyde Snodgrass, founder of Vino Novo. Clyde, thank you so much for joining us today. Clyde: Thanks for having me, Roy. Roy: I’m really excited about this innovation and obviously to talk to you about it. I’ve become a winer, I don’t even know what they call, wine snob, something like that, a person who enjoys wine these days. Red wine is certainly my flavor, especially coming into the winter months. I’m really excited about talking about this innovation that you’ve created. Give our audience a little bit of the background of where does this start, what’s your background and what inspired you to create, Vino Novo. Clyde: Sure. The idea came from a physics journal that I read back in 2008. I was... I’m still a big nerd, but I was a really, really big nerd back in high school and college. Physics really fascinated me. Sometimes I can’t sleep. I’ll just go down go down the rabbit hole of the internet. I found a paper written by three physicists out in China, the university [inaudible 00:02:11] culture. It talked about using AC electric fields for wine maturation. Years... When I was younger... I come from a pretty big Italian family, a lot of whom immigrated from Italy. My oldest uncle, my godfather, actually used to make wine when we were kids. We used to watch him do it. It was a very laborious process. I had this light bulb went off in my head. My grandmother, unfortunately, just passed away like a month ago, so it’s fresh. We had the last bottle of wine that she had. We drank in her honor, after her funeral. We started looking into how we could build a prototype out of this. The idea was to build a large-scale commercial unit. When I say large scale,