If The Shoe Fits: an Entrepreneur with Balls (Literally)
by Miki Saxon
A Friday series exploring Startups and the people who make them go. Read all If the Shoe Fits posts here.
It doesn’t matter which side you were on regarding the recent shutdown, because you were probably effected.
Maybe it was you, a relative or friend. Or maybe a friend or relative of a friend who couldn’t feed their kids or pay their mortgage/rent.
People were angry; some wrote letters, most unloaded online.
The more entrepreneurial (opportunistic) converge on Café Press.
But one entrepreneur went much further.
Greg Miller, founder of Neuticles, a company that sells testicular implants for neutered dogs so they appear unneutered, used his own product to make a statement.
As the shutdown has dragged on – it entered its 34th day Thursday – he is preparing to send his product to all 53 Senate Republicans, plus Vice President Mike Pence, with the message: ‘We are demanding that you gain testicular fortitude and have enclosed a pair of Neuticles to help achieve the necessity to stand up against the sole interests of this rogue president.”
Miller’s company, based in Oak Grove, Missouri, will spend around $13,000 on mailing plus the cost of the product.
He knows that sales are likely to take a hit from his actions, so why do it?
“I just want them to get some damn balls and think of America, not their political party.”
Male or female, entrepreneurs are known for being tough, in other words for having cojones, i.e., balls.
Greg Miller certainly does — in more ways than one.
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