Entrepreneur and TV pitchman uses contacts, focus on sales to grow new venture

Craig Rapihana is building up FlipFork by harnessing lessons learned.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 6:00 a.m. May 10, 2019
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Lori Sax. Craig Rapihana, inventor, entrepreneur and HSN pitchman, says he structures his to-do list by identifying tasks that can make him money.
Lori Sax. Craig Rapihana, inventor, entrepreneur and HSN pitchman, says he structures his to-do list by identifying tasks that can make him money.
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Craig Rapihana made Lazy Bunz work for him.

He helped build Lazy Bunz, a business that makes water floats, before selling it in late 2018 to a company called TRC Recreation LP, also known as Texas Recreation, for an undisclosed sum. A native of New Zealand now based in Sarasota, Rapihana says Texas Recreation is one of the leading float company manufacturers nationwide. 

 

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