Farmgirl Flowers

For many startup founders, raising outside capital from investors is one of the hardest parts of launching a new business. For Christina Stembel, founder and CEO of Farmgirl Flowers, it never happened. …

“The immediate need is to move out of S.F. due to new taxes — like the restructured gross receipts tax — which do not make it possible to stay in the city,” Christina Stembel, founder and CEO of Farmgirl Flowers Inc., said in responding to a San Francisco Business Times survey asking business leaders about the Bay Area exodus. …