Our Journey as an entrepreneur

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”

- Donald Trump

As most of you may know my wife and me are now owners of a garment retail shop, known as Good Choice. In other word we are now entrepreneurs. I always wanted to start a business be an entrepreneur. Thought of many business ideas some died even before they began. Some made it to jotting ideas on a paper, some up to forming a business model, but all of them never got converted to a business.

A year before me and my wife, who then was working in a garment shop here in Pune, had decided to start some business of our own. Since my wife worked in a garment shop we decided to start one. But as time passed this idea went to the backlog and many other things took priority like moving to a new home, birth of our son. Around June the idea of a business again came up and this time we decided to take the plunge and start the business.

It was early June when we decided about starting the business(seriously this time). The first thing we did, which was very obvious, was to find a shop. A shop which is of less rent and close to where we stay. Closer since this would reduce the commute as she had to take care of our son too. We simultaneously also started contacting wholesale dealers within Pune and started filtering the best from a whole lot of options.

Early July we got our shop and instantly started to getting it ready. The first part of getting the shop ready was getting a counter. Getting quotations from carpenters for getting the shop furniture ready. The carpenter were too expensive, to be precise way out of our budget, hence ultimately decided to go for a second hand counter. Ultimately got the shop ready with all the fittings and glass display a day before the opening of the shop.

Second part was to get a good wholesale dealer. We visited many places around Pune, also visited Mumbai to get the best deals. During this time all three of us my son, my wife and me fell sick. this may be due to the weather or the pressure, stress of starting a business. Whatever the reason we were stressed and in pressure as we had given ourselves a deadline to get the shop open on 1st August 2014. Unfortunately as we were sick (very sick) we could not meet the target, but ultimately we opened the shop on 10th August 2014. As for the garments they came exactly the night before the opening.

Read and heard a lot about entrepreneurs, their struggles. Mine may not be as complicated as most of the big entrepreneurs, but i still can relate to thier struggles. The journey of being an entrepreneurs was fun, stressful, but one thing i learnt from it that if you wish, dream you can do anything. So dream big my friends and take the plunge you will enjoy it.

If any of you relate to my experiences please comment, share.

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