Hobnail Trekking Co.

How We Are Building A Side Hustle Facilitating Treks In The Himalayas

September 9th, 2019
Mark E. Johnson
$5K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
1
Employees
Hobnail Trekking Co.
from Nashville, Tennessee, USA
started January 2017
$5,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
1
Employees
market size
$540B
avg revenue (monthly)
$74.7K
starting costs
$18K
gross margin
90%
time to build
270 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
Subscriptions & Memberships
best tools
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
time investment
Full time
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

My name is Mark Johnson. In 2017, I launched Hobnail Trekking Co., an adventure travel company that specializes in treks to Mt. Everest Base Camp and other epic locales in the Himalayas, as perhaps the least qualified person on the planet to do so. By the end of 2019, we will have sent 23 Americans on this life-changing journey.

As a business, Hobnail is still a “side-hustle” and will probably require another 2-3 years to become self-sustaining, but that’s what we signed up for. If the company closed tomorrow, it would’ve been the adventure of a lifetime.

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