TrepTalks with Sushant

D'Shawn Russell of Southern Elegance Candle Company shares lessons on building a strong brand within a generic scented candles category.

Matthew Griffin shares the story of building and growing a mission-driven Flip Flops Brand after completing his tour of duty.

Wylie Robinson shares the process of re-imagining the traditional home blankets with sustainable technical materials and positioning it successfully in a very crowded market with a problem-solution narrative

Michael Chou, an Aerospace Engineer by profession, engineered the perfect ice cream scoop to solve a problem for himself and created a business out of it.

Ryan Kenny of The Christmas Tree Hugger invented a simple product to solve the problem of hiding the plastic base of fake Christmas trees. Ryan shares his product development and sales journey from Indiegogo, to Shark tank, to QVC. 

They couldn't find a travel bag that would best fit their nomad lifestyle, so they decided to build one themselves. In this episode, this husband and wife team (Kish Vasnani and Vanessa Jeswani of Nomad Lane) share the story of starting a travel bag business out of their mutual love for travel. They also share details on how they ran one of the best Indiegogo campaigns ever. 

In this episode, Aaron Spivak of Hush Blankets shares details of starting and growing a weighted blanket e-commerce business, running successful Kickstarter campaigns, appearing on Dragons' Den, and a variety of marketing and operational topics. 

In this episode, Angela Watts of Slyde Handboards (Co-founder and Chief Ryde Officer) shares the startup story of Slyde Handboards, challenges educating the market of a new product concept in surfing, financing and growing the business, working with Mark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher through Shark Tank, and the decision to start a shoe company to supplement revenue in the off season. 

In this interview, Cyndi Thomason of Bookskeep shares valuable insights, tips, and best practices for e-commerce entrepreneurs on how to set up their bookkeeping and accounting processes in a way that scales with their business growth.

Tyson Walters of Shed Defender shares the story of building a niche pet product (Shedding Dog Bodysuit) business which started as a way to solve a personal problem and then got a lucky boost through a viral post from The Dodo.