Cool Side Hustle

Will the guy I know who imports and sells sunglasses from China please stand up? Also, 7 other things worth reading today...

I know a guy who has a pretty cool side hustle, manufacturing sunglasses in China and importing them to the United States.

Let’s see if you can guess how we crossed paths. Would you imagine that he is:

1. a friend from a company I used to work at?

2. an entrepeneur I met as a result of my writing for Inc. and elsewhere?

3. the barber who cuts my hair every three weeks or so?

4. all of the above

Yep, you guessed it. All of the above. It’s a sign of the times, I think, that I could happen to know three unconnected people, who each built small companies manufacturing and importing the same thing from China.

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Innovation and manufacturing

Add them to the dozen or more other people I know running small companies or side hustles, who make or import other consumer goods from China—mostly toys, headphones, and electronic gadgets you had no idea you needed.

I started thinking about all these people after my dad a…