Mikey Moran

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Featured in Food Entreprenuer Series

A few months back I had the opportunity to be featured in an Entrepreneur Series on the blog of Sramana Mitra who is a writer for Forbes. 

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Atlanta Finest Dining

This was an article I was featured in about 1 year ago. It was actually one of my favorite articles because the writer did such an excellent job of capturing my personality. The photo was by my BFF Tom Park. Always a special thanks for the recognition to Atlanta's Finest Dining magazine.

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Entrepreneur Magazine - A dream come true!

Entrepreneur Magazine

A Place to Call Your Own

Once you've learned the Ropes of selling on ebay, it may be time to open an ebay store or your very own prostores site. By Laura Tiffany | August 01, 2008

 

Michael Moran photo in Entrepreneur Magazine Michael Moran started selling his Thai food products on eBay and through a ProStores site simultaneously in 2006. But after two years, he decided to close his sales on eBay and focus on his ProStores website full time. "With ProStores, I can focus on directing customers to my own brand that I'm working so hard on developing and making successful," says Moran, 31, of his Atlanta-based company, CurrySimple (currysimple.com), which also sells products in specialty grocery stores like Whole Foods.

Moran designed his website himself, which took several long days of shooting product photos, writing content, creating the design, setting up a credit card system and establishing shipping rates. Moran credits ProStores' 24/7 support with helping him through any issues he encountered along the way.

Now Moran focuses on drawing more traffic and increasing conversion rates through Google CPC advertising, newsletters, SEO and PR, which all help CurrySimple bring in $150,000 to $200,000 each year from its retail site alone.

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Every entrepreneur has had a subscription to Entrepreneur Magazine at one point or another. I would always read it looking for ideas and inspiration for my big idea. Never did I think I would have the opportunity of actually being in it. I had my BFF Tom take the photo which was really cool because it made him a part of the article.

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The Washington Post - My First Article

The New Entrepreneurs

The Washington Post
March 15, 2006
By Michaele Weissman

Mike Moran, 29, grew up in Bethesda in a house with his mother, grandmother, sister and few frills. Moran was energetic, entrepreneurial and not very interested in school. By the time he was 17, he was more or less managing a restaurant, he says.

During the next 10 years, Moran got to know the food business inside out, working as waiter and bartender in Washington and later in Atlanta, where he lives now. He kept dreaming up ideas for new businesses that somehow never jelled. While working at Surin, one of Atlanta's most successful Thai restaurants, he fell in love with the food and the people. He'd listen as customers complained that it was impossible to make Thai food, especially the curries, at home. Then he met Nimitr Harimtepathip, known as Lim, a Thai national living in Atlanta who is a member of one of Bangkok's best known restaurant families.

Together, the two created CurrySimple, a line that includes curry sauces and other products made in Thailand with fresh, authentic ingredients that are adapted to American tastes. Red, green, yellow and masaman curry sauces have gone into production in Thailand, as well as syrup for making Thai tea and sauce for pad Thai, the popular noodle dish. In December, the Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of the ready-to-heat products, which are sold in sealed packets.

Moran, who owns the American end of the business -- his business partner, Lim, owns the Thai operation -- is doing a slow launch and for now, CurrySimple products are available only on the Internet, where they have started to generate some buzz. "I told my cousins on Christmas Day that I was going to revolutionize Thai food in America," says Moran. "They thought their crazy cousin was sounding off again, until I cooked them up a batch."

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I will have to admit... getting in The Washington Post was really cool...! The article focused mostly on local (DC Metro) entrepreneurs but since I lived in Bethesda until 21 and had a great story I was in. The day of the photo shoot at The Washington Post headquarters was so exciting. Growing up I could be seen in our little dining room reading the business & sports section of the Post while eating breakfast. It was a great way to launch CurrySimple..!

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Facebook | CurrySimple

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The CurrySimple Facebook page ROCKS! We are just over 1,000 fans and rising fast...

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