#912 - “Bendy Straw” Idea Raises $1.8M on Kickstarter
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Walking on a Thailand beach and seeing all the plastic pollution was the last straw for this environmentalist.
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| 0:00.0 | It is a brand new week and a brand new month kicking off episode 912 which will be published |
| 0:15.6 | on the first of July 2018. |
| 0:18.7 | If you're listening later, this story is still relevant. |
| 0:21.4 | Just like the vast majority of our stories, try to keep this entire archive evergreen, |
| 0:25.5 | at least as much as possible. |
| 0:27.4 | Sometimes I'm traveling, so I talk about where I am. |
| 0:29.1 | But this really affects the content of the story. |
| 0:32.2 | So I've got a great story for you today. |
| 0:33.5 | I've got a lot of great stories actually coming up this entire week and beyond. |
| 0:37.4 | This one is a tremendous success. |
| 0:39.3 | Maybe we could set it up by asking, what do you do when you set out to raise $12,000 through |
| 0:43.8 | crowdfunding? |
| 0:44.8 | You actually end up raising nearly $2 million. |
| 0:47.9 | $2 million actually, $1.8 million. |
| 0:50.2 | It kind of falls into the category of a good problem to have, but it can still create problems, |
| 0:55.4 | including AC of knockoffs, which we're talking about a bit today. |
| 0:58.5 | We're calling it Bindi Straw idea. |
| 1:00.0 | It raises $1.8 million on Kickstarter, but there's drama and intrigue. |
| 1:04.4 | Also, I want to give a shout out to a couple of our listeners who wrote in and asked me |
| 1:08.6 | to clarify something from a recent episode. |
| 1:10.9 | We've got a lot of people out there doing all kinds of things. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm very grateful to those in our community who have skills that I don't. |
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