Case Study
Purely Alpaca
Industry Apparel Services Used Shippo Web App The genesis of Brian Scheiber’s million dollar idea came about while he was ipping through a magazine on an airplane during a business trip in 1999. He saw a picture of a pack of grazing alpacas and thought, “wow, that looks really cool.” Tired with his job in the high tech eld, Brian did some research, and next thing he knew, he’d bought some land on Vashon Island outside of Seattle and started a small alpaca farm and a small online shopping cart. From a Passing Interest in Alpacas to a Wild and Woolly From a Passing Interest in Alpacas to a Wild and Woolly Online Business Online Business Cut to 20 years later, and Brian and his wife now run two very successful e-commerce ventures in the alpaca industry: Purely Alpaca, a retailer of Alpaca g