EP 73: How an Accidental Entrepreneur Taped up Ecommerce & Amazon Success - Kevin Mahoney, FindTape.com

My guest on today’s show is an accidental ecommerce entrepreneur and a programmer / developer at heart. He is the founder of FindTape.com.He stumbled into ecommerce after an initial rejection to build a website for a an adhesive tape distributor.We went unto build a dropship ecommerce store that was supplied by this distributor.After about 3 years moonlighting, he hit the $1m revenue milestone and quit his day dev job. His company’s revenue on Amazon in 2015 was just under $2 million. 
Read the show notes for this episode on http://2xecommerce.com/podcast/ep73/ 
 
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