- Where you live?
Cambridge, MA
- What your/your business does?
line of clothing and accessories for pre-teen girls based on a national community of girls interacting in local events as well as online
- How long you have been doing it?
1.1 years. Knew nothing about fashion/apparel going in, background is in publishing, custom marketing. Serious learning curve.
- Do you have a family and/or kids?
No. Someday.
- How old are you?
37, my how time flies.
- How much do you work?
Work? What's work, this is fun. Seriously, 60 to 70 hour weeks.
- Do you like it (seriously!)?
LOVE IT!!! there's nothing better than working for yourself. Building your own business from scratch, making real decisions, creating your own future. It's the best. Having a philanthropic, girl-power mission adds to the mix. I feel like I'm really contributing to the world.
- What was the defining moment that made you strike out on your own?
In one week, three distinct occurences/opportunities/ideas coalesced to form a unified vision. In addtion to thoser three, I had reached my creative limit at my old job and had to work with some unethical people, tried to change that, couldn't, so moved on.
- Are you accumulating wealth or just sustaining life?
Accumulating debt!
Seriously, with more and more stores everyday starting to carry the line, the future looks pretty bright. If the trend continues, I could see real wealth down the road.
- Do you have a comfortable lifestyle (buy whatever you want? within reason? unlimted?)
Gone through my savings and have accumulated significant debt, but have maintained the basics of a previous 6-figure lifestyle. It's really big-picture, longterm that's important.
- How much you make? (If you choose to answer, it can be any form: sales, net, X times what an exmployee would make doing the same job, etc.)
Haven't taken a salary since starting, but have 75% of a company with $800K in 05 sales, projected $3M in 06. The new line is really taking off. Shameless plug:
http://www.g9girl.com/showroom/