May 29, 2020
We love business start-up stories on the home business podcast. The COVID 19 crisis is leading to new bursts of ingenuity as entrepreneurs develop new products and services to adapt to a new stay-at-home world. To curb the cost and hassle of the new rush to buy home exercise equipment, Emily Fukunaga, has created a weight listing device that makes Campbell’s soup the center of your workout. Enter her Makeweight - a DIY dumbbell device that firmly holds food cans, fashioning a custom weight that’s adaptable to your curling and pressing ability.
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The Makeweight home workout barbells.[/caption]
Richard “Capt’n” Henderson and Sherilyn Colleen interview Emily, and learn about her “Fast Start-Up” story that provides lessons learned – including with Kickstarter - on quickly getting your product to market.
Subjects discussed in the podcast include:
- Innovative home workout product the Makeweight via 3D Printing
- Emily’s story – working product development around a day job in the retail industry
- Product Launch status with the Makeweight
- Fundraising and her use of Kickstarter
- Marketing a low-cost product such as through online promotions and social media
- Getting ready to handle growth that can potentially springboard to millions of units
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