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Side Hustle School

#704 - Shoe Designer Runs After $1 Million Challenge

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

“Why can’t dress shoes look great and perform well at the same time?” This runner and industrial designer was irritated, so he set out to find the sole solution. 

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0:00.0

Nautic nature is ever changing and unpredictable.

0:05.1

Shifting between wind, sun and rain, but one thing is certain, this landscape shares its

0:10.8

goodness with us all.

0:12.6

Yard is the delicious plant-based oat drink, made with simple, all-natural ingredients,

0:18.4

and organic oats grown and harvested in Nordic fields.

0:22.4

Yard, inspired by Nordic nature, find it in the chill, deri alternative's aisle.

0:30.0

Why can't dress shoes look great and perform well at the same time?

0:43.2

The runner and industrial designer I'll tell you about today was irritated by this problem.

0:47.9

So he set out to find the sole solution.

0:51.1

Welcome to Sad us little school, my name is Chris Gillibow, wherever there is a problem,

0:54.7

there's also a potential solution and the purposes of our conversation, a potential moneymaker.

1:00.6

A few days ago I told you all about an Air Force veteran who launches an OCD candy store

1:06.2

that was pretty obscure as I said, pretty niche market, yet she's doing pretty well, and

1:10.8

she's going to be able to grow it further if she goes online.

1:13.6

Well today's story is all about that industrial designer who happens to be a runner, or perhaps

1:18.2

you could say he's a runner who happens to be an industrial designer, he's really

1:21.4

into running into shoes.

1:23.2

When a friend challenges him to make a dress shoe that you could run a marathon in, at

1:27.5

first he laughs it off, and then he gets to work, putting one foot in front of the other

1:31.4

until he crosses the finish line.

1:33.4

He also overcome all sorts of hardships along the way to achieve a big sales number at the

1:37.8

end of his first year.

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