When your family owns a Montana cattle ranch, it seems like selling beef to a friend should be easy enough. David Balatero, an old boyfriend’s bandmate, wanted good meat from a small ranch, and he ...

When online meat supplier Crowd Cow first launched, you had the opportunity to literally buy shares of a cow directly from a local farm. Once enough people pooled in to buy an entire cow, your cut was ...

Crowdfunding has changed the landscape for startups, and it’s now spread outside of the traditional “give me money to help me fund my company or product” landscape. It has expanded into other areas, ...

What: Crowd Cow, a website that allows customers to buy cuts of meat from steers bought from Washington state ranches. Who: Ethan Lowry, co-founder. He also co-founded Urbanspoon, the restaurant- and ...