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Side Hustle School

#1685 - TBT: Small 3D Printing Site Competes With Etsy

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Small Business, Business, Side Hustle

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from Nikko Mendoza, who sells 3D printing templates. After he lost his job last year, he started taking his side gig more seriously—and business took off.


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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.


Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

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0:35.2

Friends, listeners, community, what's up? Welcome to Sad Us Will School. My name is Chris

0:39.5

Gallipo. I am privileged and honored to be your host, bringing you daily stories, updates,

0:44.9

questions and answers, case studies, all sorts of investigations into the world of making extra money

0:51.0

without quitting your job. Today, this is Throbac Thursday, our weekly segment where we take an

0:56.3

in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. We have been doing

1:00.8

this a while, 1685 days in a row, to be precise. We've got all kinds of cool stories in our archives,

1:07.6

and it's been fun to go back and say, okay, this is how things were 500 days ago, which I think is

1:12.9

the case of today, 500 plus days. What's happened since then, and what have you learned in the process?

1:19.0

So, last week we heard from the co-founder of Dig Dates. Dig Dates is a dating app for dog lovers.

1:25.6

They have recently rolled out a cat companion app as well, that app is called Tabby.

1:30.1

And today, in our latest feature, we'll hear from Nico Mendoza. We first told history in

1:35.6

episode 973D printing brings cosplay into 21st century. He has since expanded his business in

1:43.9

lots of ways. In fact, I had a hard time editing his update for us here. We had something like

1:48.7

30 minutes of audio and wanted to condense it down to usually a four to five minute clip,

1:53.9

just because he's involved in so many different things. So, I try to focus these updates a little bit,

1:58.5

but as somebody who also has a lot of projects, I respect the hustle. So, good work, Nico. I think

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