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How a College Student Landed a 1,500-Store Retail Deal (The $500k Hamster Ball)

Name: How a College Student Landed a 1,500-Store Retail Deal (The $500k Hamster Ball)
Uploaded: 2026-03-23
Duration: 46 min 46 s
Description: Ethan Haber started Happy Habitats, a small-pet (hamster ball) product line, as a Wake Forest sophomore and grew it into a retail deal heading into 1,500 locations nationwide. He covers design and patents, manufacturing, packaging, Amazon, trade shows and big-box retail strategy.

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Ethan Haber started Happy Habitats, a small-pet (hamster ball) product line, as a Wake Forest sophomore and grew it into a retail deal heading into 1,500 locations nationwide. He covers design and patents, manufacturing, packaging, Amazon, trade shows and big-box retail strategy.