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            <h1>Hisabo</h1>
            <h4>23 Jul 2015</h4>
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            <h2 id="hisabo">Hisabo</h2>

<p>I founded and ran <a href="http://www.hisabo.com">Hisabo Tea Company</a> for a few months as a side project.</p>

<p>Through Hisabo, we sold hard to find or unique teas to a list of email subscribers (similar to Garagiste for wines).</p>

<p>We sourced each tea through a network of connections in Japan, Taiwan, China and Nepal.</p>

<p>I stopped working on Hisabo to focus exclusively on Shortlist.</p>

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