Yes, this has nothing to do with Restaurants, but in the spirit of sappy Valentine's Day-ness, here's a little something about ChickAdvisor Founders, Ali and Alex de Bold you didn't know... How I met my husband... and business partner, Alex. Part 1: Kicked off Campus I am originally from Winnipeg. About 8 years ago I was studying at the University of Manitoba and took on a part time job doing field marketing for a company with several clients including a new online textbook retailer for university students called ProfessorJones (now defunct). I promoted ProfessorJones on campus together with a small team I hired, and we handed out cd roms, put up posters and encouraged fellow students to buy their textbooks online instead of paying through the nose at the University bookstore. After a couple of weeks of intense promotion, we were kicked off campus because the university bookstore was upset about the competition and pulled out an old contract that said they had exclusive rights to sell text books on campus. The university paper wrote up a nice little ditty on the brouhaha here. They quoted me for it. I didn't think anything more about that job until several years later... Read More...