Kenny Haisfield is an entrepreneur, an avid traveler and the founder of Kenny Flowers (IG @kennyflowers_), a clothing and lifestyle brand known for putting a fresh spin on tropical shirts, swim and beachwear. Several years ago, Kenny quit his consulting job in New York to wear a Hawaiian shirt 365 days a year and design a line of fun, stylin’ island attire made in Bali. His goal is that, by wearing Kenny Flowers, you have a bit of paradise with you at all times.
During this fireside chat we’re going to unpack:
How to take corporate experience and apply it to launching your own company
The benefits of taking a risk-it-all approach as opposed to starting with a side hustle
The power of using social media to drive demand for D2C brands
What it takes to land your first 100/1,000/10,000 customers
The biggest failures and learning moments along the way
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Special thanks to our friends and partners:
- SIB Fixed Cost Reduction for hosting us, we couldn’t do it without them
Kenny Flowers
Founder
Kenny Haisfield is an entrepreneur, an avid traveler and the founder of Kenny Flowers, a clothing and lifestyle brand known for putting a fresh spin on tropical shirts, swim and beachwear. Several years ago, Kenny quit his consulting job in New York to wear a Hawaiian shirt 365 days a year and design a line of fun, stylin’ island attire made in Bali. His goal is that, by wearing Kenny Flowers,…
Kenny Haisfield is an entrepreneur, an avid traveler and the founder of Kenny Flowers, a clothing and lifestyle brand known for putting a fresh spin on tropical shirts, swim and beachwear. Several years ago, Kenny quit his consulting job in New York to wear a Hawaiian shirt 365 days a year and design a line of fun, stylin’ island attire made in Bali. His goal is that, by wearing Kenny Flowers, you have a bit of paradise with you at all times.
GoodUnited
Founder
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Jeremy Berman is the Director of Startup Grind Charleston and Founder of GoodUnited. Over the last 6 years, Jeremy has helped connect the Charleston startup community by hosting over 50 fireside chats that brought together 2,000+ entrepreneurs. In addition, Jeremy is the Founder of GoodUnited, a high-growth nonprofit tech company helping nonprofits connect with their donors where they spend time.
Over the last five years, Jeremy and his co-founder, Nick Black, have raised ~$3 million and launched 2 failed products before finding product-market fit. Today GoodUnited works with the top nonprofits in the country and is rapidly growing in Charleston, SC.
Prior to GoodUnited, Jeremy was a product manager at IBM, the first business hire at a dry-cleaning startup in NYC, and a consultant. He’s a proud supporter of Virginia Tech (where he went to undergrad) and UNC (where he went to business school).
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