Take your frustration with a product and turn it into a business (Even if you’re not an entrepreneur) – with Tim Moxey

Tim Moxey, Nuun, eCommerce, Lifestyle Business, Non-Tech, Physical Product

Tim Moxey didn’t like how sugary sports drinks were, so he created a drink that was better suited to athletes like him.

Nuun, the company he founded, makes a simple, self-dissolving, sugar-free electrolyte tab for athletes on the go.

If you’re a long-distance runner, for example, you might carry one of this tabs in your pocket. Then after a few miles of running, you’d dissolve it in water and drink.

Tim has since grown Nuun to over $10 million in revenue in 2013. Here’s how he did it.

Tim Moxey

Nuun

Tim Moxey is the founder of Nuun, which makes a simple, self-dissolving, sugar-free electrolyte tab for athletes on the go.

 

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For now, I want to tell you about this story of a triathlete who took his frustration and turned it into a business. Tim Moxey didn’t like how sugary sports drinks were. I don’t either, but he created his own drink which was better suited to athletes like him. Nuun, the company he founded, makes a simple self-dissolving sugar-free electrolyte tab for athletes on the go. Let me explain what that means.

Say you’re an athlete or runner, a runner, for example, and you might hate the drink of Gatorade, like I do but you obviously can’t carry around...

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