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Cole Jones on the TechWaterloo stage

Cole Jones

Founder & CEO, Local Line

AgTechWaterlooOn TechWaterloo stages since 2017

Cole Jones founded Local Line, an e-commerce platform that lets farms, food hubs and farmers' markets sell direct to buyers. It started as a student project at Wilfrid Laurier University, cold-calling Waterloo-region farmers and hand-delivering produce to local chefs. He is still CEO.

On the TechWaterloo stage ×1

First seen on the TechWaterloo stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Cole

In their words

if you sell enough customers you should be able to figure that out and so the idea here is like if you can go to the customer and run the exercise with them and they know that if they spend whatever it is $200 a month with you they're gonna get a 10x return

TechWaterloo, Dec 2017 · watch at 04:27

we shorten the free trial which works super well like we never put a knot into it we work on it is like I don't know like 14 days maybe try it and hope you love it but we got to quantify like what is the specific action that that customer takes it gives them enough value that they're gonna buy

TechWaterloo, Dec 2017 · watch at 06:18
A few quotes can’t cover everything Cole said on the TechWaterloo stage. 1,600+ talks are searchable.Ask about Cole

Around the web ×1

Quick answers

What is Local Line?

A farm-to-fork e-commerce platform out of Waterloo, Ontario, giving farms, food hubs and farmers' markets ordering, CRM, inventory and logistics tooling to sell direct.

How did Local Line start?

As a student project at Wilfrid Laurier University. Jones was cold-calling Waterloo-region farmers, loading their price lists onto a website, and hand-delivering produce to local chefs.

Is Cole Jones still running Local Line?

Yes — the company's about page names him as founder and CEO.

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