My wife started a business 11 Yrs ago and Amazon came to her to sell the product

Jan 12, 2021
12:39:55pm

Iman23 Truly Addicted User

And we told them no, b/c we didn’t like the split. I was the driver in that decision.

Business shut down about a year later.

Kids apparel company.

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POLL: Have you ever owned/ran a business and drove it into the ground?

Ragnar Danneskjold Mostly peaceful

1/12/21 12:32pm

It was a fence post installation company

Indy Coug

1/12/21 12:32pm

RE: It was a fence post installation company

SpotOnOpinionsGuy

1/12/21 12:34pm

Does family count?

benny1982

1/12/21 12:32pm

Sure!

Ragnar Danneskjold

1/12/21 1:36pm

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JimmyZ

1/12/21 12:33pm

doughnut delivery route decades ago in SoCal. Ate all the profits!

grandpacoug

1/12/21 3:47pm

What's the stats on dad-gives-business-to-kid? Isn't it like 70% failure?

johnnycarson

1/12/21 12:35pm

My wife started a business 11 Yrs ago and Amazon came to her to sell the product

Iman23

1/12/21 12:39pm

Not much of a story. I started a lithium battery company after college.

maxpowers

1/12/21 12:46pm

Board name checks out

boorad

1/12/21 2:19pm

No sir. Not that he knows of

TNT

1/12/21 12:48pm

I once became so good at cooking that my stuff started to become more

slowhiteguy

1/12/21 12:50pm

My wife has an Etsy shop that loses a few hundred dollars a year, but it is still kicking!

Clark Addison

1/12/21 12:56pm

All of us have that.

johnnycarson

1/12/21 12:57pm

Not true. Some of us have a wife with a photography business.

Clark Addison

1/12/21 12:59pm

I don't mark much money as a rock musician these days

mncstr

1/12/21 1:02pm

Which band?

doubled1981

1/12/21 2:18pm

RE: Which band?

mncstr

1/13/21 4:48pm

not on purpose

BlueFrog

1/12/21 1:05pm

I own 5 businesses. Each one more successful than the next.

Virginia Ute

1/12/21 1:13pm

I’ve started two businesses and been very unsuccessful at both.

CrimWalCoug

1/12/21 1:44pm

I ran a family business for a couple of years. I didn't have ownership.

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