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Greg Shugar    

Entrepreneur & Founder of The Tie Bar

Using humorous anecdotes, Greg Shugar speaks on the nuts and bolts of entrepreneurship and start ups. His anecdotes and advice come from both his past and current experience in launching brands and supporting entrepreneurship.

Shugar is best known as the Founder of The Tie Bar, the largest and most recognizable brand of men's neckwear and accessories sold online. Shugar grew The Tie Bar from the basement of his home into a $20 million business before a private-equity firm acquired the brand in 2013.

In 2015, Shugar co-founded Thread Experiment, the world’s 1st ever brand of home bedding dedicated to men. The company experienced immediate growth since its launch in the early summer, effectively creating a new category in home decor that never previously existed.

Shugar is also an active angel investor in start-ups, a mentor to young entrepreneurs, regularly speaks on topics related to entrepreneurship and taught an Entrepreneurship Bootcamp course at Florida Atlantic University.

Prior to his more recent entrepreneurial activities, Shugar was a practicing attorney in Chicago for eight miserable years, and he won't mind telling you that.

Speech Topics


General topics relating to e-commerce

Including:

  • How to start a business
  • How to launch your business
  • How to grow your business
  • How to brand your business
  • How to market your business

Storytelling on the creation, launch, growth and ultimate sale of The Tie Bar

This includes real life stories of the ups and downs of starting a company, launching a brand, how to you create opportunities for yourself in a competitive environment, great successes and failures that I experienced along the way and how to compete against the big guys.

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