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About who we were, what we were trying to do and what our products were. >> oh, boy. amazon has been huge for our business. >> jeff hayden is chief financial officer for net pods and he's also madelyn's husband. after a long career in investment banking, he's well suited to monitoring the company's bottom line. >> a lot of our kick starter backers loved the product and went on amazon and wrote great reviews. that launched us on amazon. we did $10,000 in amazon sales our first month. >> the company's success on amazon has not gone unnotice. >> how did you figure out amazon in. >> that's probabl...

Exactly to her taste. she used it in her coffee and for baking. >> and then my friends started borrowing it and then i realized, it's not just me that's looking for something and that was my light bulb moment. that was only two years ago. madelyn's home brewed creamer is called nut pods. it's being produced commercially and being sold in grocery stores and online. >> it's doing remarkable well. we can make more than $5 million in revenue. >> how did she turn a homemade recipe into a multiple million dollars dollar business. >> we needed to know is this too small of a niche, is this too small o...

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Week after launching their deal they sold 2,000 quilts. enough to prove to themselves that they were onto something. but still, not enough to prove to investors. >> investors like well, there's not the demand for this product and if they didn't say that, well, once people see how popular it is, some big company will come in and eat you up. >> at that point they had only one option. >> made us very scrappy because we only had you know, we only have $1,000 to spend on this advertising campaign or only $1,000 here, so we had to be really smart about how we're going to get more people to our websi...