Dean Salakas, Co-founder of The Party People, shares the story of taking over the kid's party store business that his mother had started and establishing it into a household party store brand in Australia with successful brick & mortar and e-commerce operations. 

Peter Thorpe, the founder of Fire Avert, shares how his experience as a firefighter inspired him to create a product that prevents kitchen fires. Peter shares his experiences commercializing the product to multi-family housing to make the biggest impact in preventing household fires. Peter also has plans to grow the Direct-to-Consumer D2C market. 

Mehdi Kajbaf, co-founder of Matboard and More, shares the story of building a Custom Matboard niche e-commerce business. This interview shows a great example of how to create competitive advantage and capture market share in a niche category by offering a large selection of high-quality products (in this case Custom Matboards). 

Mikey Moran, founder of Private Label Extensions, shares his journey in the beauty industry and how he built a successful hair extensions company. Despite not having prior knowledge about hair extensions, Moran dived deep into learning about the manufacturing side of products and combined it with his expertise in marketing and entrepreneurship to scale the business. Mikey shares the importance of having high-quality products that build loyalty with the customers.

Dmitriy Peregudov founder of giftbasketsoverseas.com and Giftsenda shares the story of how he started an online gifting business because he couldn't find an easy way to send gifts to his girlfriend. Since then, Dmitry has scaled his business globally to enable people to send gifts to 200 countries as early as next day. Dmitriy shares the importance on focusing ona. niche and becoming the best to compete with big businesses as well as lessons in delegation, scaling, and building a great remote company culture. 

Leonid Khodor of UpCart shares the story of using his background in engineering and patent development to invent and bring to market a novel three-wheeled stair climbing foldable cart that helps people move stuff and allows easy foldable storage of the cart. The product now has mass distribution across the US as well as international markets through retailers such as Home Depot, Lowe's, Costco, Ace Hardware and many more. Leonid shares his advice on patent development and shares how he has overcome some of the challenges in manufacturing, supply, and distribution of the product. 

Addie Gundry, the founder and CEO of Pluie, shares how a difficult diaper changing experience with her son inspired her to create the world's first self-sanitizing diaper changing table. Pluie creates self-sanitizing diaper changing tables for public restrooms. Addie shares her unconventional career journey, starting as a chef before transitioning to entrepreneurship. Addie shares her successes and lessons learned in product development, raising funds including Shark Tank appearance, obtaining patent, and bringing the product to a B2B market.

Elina Furman of Kahlmi shares the story of creating the first baby massager that helps soothe babies. Even before bringing the product to market Furman built a strong and engaged organic following of over 800,000 followers through educational content about baby massage on social media, which gave her the perfect customer base when launching the product. 

Lawrence (Larry) O'Connor, Founder of Other World Computing (OWC) shares the story of getting started in tech as a kid while working with his early adopter dad which led to the launch of Other World Computing (OWC). OWC gives Mac and PC users the ability to upgrade their computer hardware in an affordable and user-friendly manner. O'Connor emphasizes the importance of balancing direct sales with distribution through retailers and distributors, as well as offering excellent customer service and educating customers about the value of their products. He also highlights the significance of software in supporting hardware functionality and delivering the best user experience. 

Will Roya of PlayingCardDecks.com shares the story of creating a successful Playing Card Decks ecommerce business as a result of his background and passion for magic. Will emphasizes the importance of SEO, organic growth, carrying a wide selection of unique decks and building a strong brand as ingredients for his success. Will also shares his rationale for selling the business and the process of finding a buyer.