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Kiowa Kavovit Co-Founder Eco Bandage
Kiowa Kavovit discusses building Eco Bandage with her family and draws on her pitching experience at Shark Tank and Walmart Open Call. She also covers keeping growth commitments, working with ECRM and RangeMe, and choosing investors and advisers.
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Kiowa KavovitCo-founderEco Bandage
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Eco Bandage began with dissatisfaction with conventional bandages and developed as a family business. Kiowa discusses that origin and shares lessons from pitching in settings including Shark Tank and Walmart Open Call. Succinct pitching is one of the episode’s central subjects.
The conversation also considers the discipline required to manage growth and fulfill commitments. Kiowa describes the role ECRM and RangeMe have played for the brand and what the team looks for in investors and advisers. The episode also includes her interests in Stevie Nicks and Poppi.
Topics covered
Pitching the business
The discussion spans concise pitches for Shark Tank and Walmart Open Call.
Keeping growth commitments
The episode considers the discipline needed to manage expansion and fulfill promises.
Finding partners and advisers
ECRM, RangeMe and the team’s criteria for investors and advisers are discussed.
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