How Dan Caldwell grew TapouT from nothing to $100,000,000 in revenue

Dan Caldwell, TapouT, Clothing Company, eCommerce, Educational Company, Mixergy Fan, Physical Product, Scaling, Sell Your Business

Joining me today is a Mixergy fan named Dan Caldwell. He is the founder of TapouT, an iconic MMA clothing brand that he founded in 1997.

He sold the business 2010 and I want to find out how he built the business and a little bit about his latest project, Lessons.biz.

It’s a site that teaches other people how to create an apparel business based on what Dan and his cofounders have learned and you can check it out at Lessons.biz.

Dan Caldwell

TapouT

Dan Caldwell is a co-founder of the iconic MMA clothing brand TapouT.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. Joining me today is a Mixergy fan named Dan Caldwell. He is the founder of TapouT, an iconic MMA clothing brand that he founded in–it was 2005, right?

Dan: No, 1997.

Andrew: 1997, oh. The website I could only find going back to 2005. You did sell it, though, in 2010, right?

Dan: Yeah. We did. It’s actually because if you check TapouT.com, we didn’t get TapouT.com until 2005. We started with InYaFace.com back when we didn’t know that that was a big deal.

Andrew: And you sold the business 2010. I want to find out how you built up the business and find out a little bit about your latest project, which is Lessons.biz. It’s a site that teaches other people how to create an apparel business based on what Dan and his cofounders have learned and you can obviously check it out at Lessons.biz....

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