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Advice Line with Ariel Kaye of Parachute Home

2024/8/29
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Dane Brown, co-founder of King Brown Pomade, discusses his 10-year journey in the Australian men's grooming market. He seeks advice on securing strategic investment to expand his brand beyond B2B and into direct-to-consumer sales, particularly for his new hair health product line. Key discussion points include the challenges of self-funding, the evolving market landscape, and the potential of a new hair thickening product.
  • King Brown Pomade has been self-funded for 10 years.
  • The brand is well-known in Australia and has international distribution.
  • A new hair thickening product line is being launched with a direct-to-consumer subscription model.

Shownotes Transcript

Parachute Home founder Ariel Kaye joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three founders on being mindful and strategic in their next expansion steps*. *

Today, we meet Daen, an entrepreneur in Australia considering investment for his line of men’s grooming products after ten years of self-funding. Then Deanna, a former educator in New Jersey seeking new press for the emotional health tool she designed for children. And Meaghan, a Florida-based hard seltzer maker trying to gut-check biases in her male-dominated industry.

If you’d like to be featured on a future Advice Line episode, leave us a one-minute message that tells us about your business and a specific question you’d like answered. Send a voice memo to [email protected] or call 1-800-433-1298.

And be sure to listen to Parachute Home’s founding story) as told by Ariel on the show in 2023.

This episode was produced by Carla Esteves with music by Ramtin Arablouei. It was edited by John Isabella. Our audio engineer was Cena Loffredo.

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