Andy Theimer, Founder of RecipeBridge.com

Single Entrepreneur Spotlight

Andy Theimer

Milwaukee, WI

Founder of RecipeBridge.com

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1. My business and how I got started:

Sitting at a coffee shop several years ago with a co-worker.  We were thinking of problems to solve and hit upon the fact that most people who use the Internet to find recipes (over 80 million annually) go through multiple websites and Google searches before finding the right one.

2. Why my product/service is better than the competition:

New cooking and recipe websites appear every week but I feel we’ve found something different.  We took something that people are already doing; searching for recipes online, and made the experience much better.

3. A typical day for me:

I get up around 7am and head for the super-automatic coffee machine, best investment ever! Typically I spend the first hour reading up on the technology and online advertising space then it’s replying to emails. The rest of my day is a mix of writing out technical specs for new features, reaching out to potential partners, and setting up meetings.

4. What I love most about my business:

The online cooking market is gigantic and growing faster ever year.   We have the opportunity to shake it up and show people a different approach to finding recipes on the web and on upcoming ‘pad’ devices.

5. I’m cool because:

I can only assume “geeky intellectual” is the new cool for 2010?  I have a passion for finding and trying new things from mountain climbing to technology.  I like being unpredictable and hearing my mom say “you’re doing what?” when I tell her what I’m up to.

6. If my friends nominated me for an award, it would be “Most Likely to…”:

Haha…. hopefully they wouldn’t be able to predict that J

7. A movie made about my life it would be named:

“Maybe this time…..”

8. Strangest thing you’d find in my fridge, wallet or closet:

My bowtie collection.

9. Personal qualities I admire most in others:

I admire the ability to focus precisely on one thing and becoming excellent at it.  I’ve always been more of the “jack-of-all-trades” type and really admire people who do one thing and do it better than anyone else.

10. Three things I hope to accomplish in the next five years:

1. Travel to Cambodia
2. Move to another state
3. Sell off a company
4. + 5. TBD

Want to connect with Andy? Find him on LinkedIn and his mountain climbing blog!