Monday, February 12, 2007

Entrepreneur for the Eccentric

An inspirational story for Monday morning: A man with a passion for unicycles and banjos first starts a unicycle business and then…well, read his tale. An excerpt:

Unicycle.com went live on March 31, 1999, an event that was largely unnoticed. We had announced our grand-opening date on a unicycle newsgroup a few weeks before—but no one showed up. Eleven days later we finally received an order confirmation—not for a unicycle, but for a $13 rear-view mirror that mounts on sunglasses. We were so excited! By April 30 we'd sold $1,000 in products. Our new toll-free number brought even more orders, with Amy juggling calls, changing diapers and getting Wishbone to stop barking. By the end of October, we were averaging $11,000 a month in sales. Then I lost my job at IBM.

[BTW: Here are the links to his
unicycle site and his banjo site.]

[HT:
Teri’s Brain ]

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