143: Building a Multi-Million Dollar Ecommerce Brand on the Side

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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If you've ever been frustrated with the products in your life, and thought "there's gotta be a better way!," this conversation is sure to hit home. Jeremy Michael Cohen and Fred Perrotta created Tortuga Backpacks after an awesome trip to Europe -- and a less-than-awesome experience with their luggage. They resolved to create a better travel backpack, and did it, starting as a side hustle of course.

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0:00.0	Side Hustle Show 143, building a multi-million dollar e-commerce brand on the side.
0:05.4	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show.
0:09.0	Where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn how to turn their side hustle dreams into reality because your
0:14.9	9 to 5 may make you a living, but your 5 to 9 makes you alive.
0:19.7	And now your host, Nick Loper.
0:27.0	What's up, what's up, Nick Loper, here? Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, because Hustler's work is never through.
0:32.0	Thank you so much for tuning in today in this. because Hustler's work is never through.
0:33.0	Thank you so much for tuning in today.
0:35.0	In this episode, you're going to meet
0:36.0	Jeremy Michael Cohen and Fred Perrada,
0:38.0	lifelong friends who went into business together
0:41.0	after finding what they thought was an unmet need in the market.
0:45.0	Carry On-Sized Travel Backpack.
0:48.0	You're going to learn how Tortuga Backpacks came into existence,
0:51.0	how they initially developed the product and prototype, a unique way, they got their
0:55.0	startup funds, and ultimately how they've grown the brand into a seven-figure e-commerce business
1:00.6	over the last few years.
1:02.0	Now while Freddie eventually quit his job at
1:04.0	Google to Captain Tortuga full-time it's still a side hustle for Jeremy who's a
1:08.9	full-time filmmaker. If you've got a product idea or are looking for one and want to get into e-commerce, this will be a fun one.
1:15.0	Less role.
1:17.0	I am a full time on Tertuga after many years of it being a side hustle. We are four people as of right now with a gang of freelancers and contractors that really help make it all happen.
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