Here’s The $10 Million Melted Cheese Store Everyone’s Talking About (Nope! Not a Joke!)

What do you do when Cisco buys your consumer product company and abruptly closes it down? If you are Jon Kaplan, creator of the popular and now discontinued Flip camera line, you make a lot of grilled cheese. June 1, 2011 at 9:54 am PT

Posts With Melt

Here’s Why Sequoia Thinks Melt Is Worth Millions: The D9 Demo (Video)

in D9 on June 19, 2011 at 10:11 am PT

In the fall of 2008, Sequoia Capital declared “RIP: Good Times.” Flash forward to present tense: Sequoia is now putting millions into The Melt, a new grilled cheese shop chain from former Flip CEO Jonathan Kaplan.

Digital Grilled Cheese D9 Poll Results Are In: “The Kara” Edges Out “The Walt”

in D9 on June 8, 2011 at 2:34 pm PT

Personally, I preferred “The Walt” over “The Kara.” But the attendees of the ninth D: All Things Digital conference seemed to like the grilled cheese sandwich made of “sharp” cheddar over more “experienced” gruyere, courtesy of a new start-up demo called Melt.

Jonathan Kaplan Still Doesn’t Know Exactly Why Cisco Killed the Flip (Video)

in D9 on June 1, 2011 at 10:17 am PT

Jonathan Kaplan still doesn’t know exactly why Cisco Systems opted to shut down its Flip Digital video camera unit rather than selling it. But he has a pretty good guess.
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Here’s The $10 Million Melted Cheese Store Everyone’s Talking About (Nope! Not a Joke!)

in D9 on June 1, 2011 at 9:54 am PT

What do you do when Cisco buys your consumer product company and abruptly closes it down? If you are Jon Kaplan, creator of the popular and now discontinued Flip camera line, you make a lot of grilled cheese.