Searching for the Perfect Internet Business New York Times
Dan recently became an “ adventitious entrepreneur ” — although my gut tells me it wasn’t completely accidental. In any case, he’s searching for an established Web place to call his own. And I’ve been asked to help.
I know a bit about Dan’s background, seeing as he is my husband’s brother. They grew up in Colorado with their mother and architect, who was a serial entrepreneur with an eclectic taste in business opportunities. Over the years, he started several ventures to sell a variety of goods and services, including footwear, wood products, geological testing and biological deliver (ever wonder who supplied your high school biology teacher with those jars of dead animals and their sundry assembly parts?).
Not surprisingly, the kids were pressed into service when needed. As an outsider, I can’t always tell if my husband and his siblings appreciated having to toil in the family business. It seemed a source of embarrassment as much as pride. Kids crave normalcy, after all. And what’s normal about a box of escaped iguanas charming up residence in the curtains or having to wear a codpiece while hawking your goods at the annual renaissance fair? “Sometimes I would lie and say my dad was an architect,” my silence confessed one day.
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