It’s very complicated to sell baked goods – lots of codes & licenses.
As with any small or self-run business you also need a good plan, significant financing (as MM points out) and good luck, plus the will to sacrifice and work your ass off (which means not posting on Brownstoner all day, unless that’s key to your business plan).
It’s easy to say, “You should start a business!” but as the saying goes, talk is cheap.
lechacal- great story! your uncle sounds like the male version of my aunt, who was a world traveler and quite a character. I once described her as a combination of Auntie Mame and Field Marshall Rommel.
Yes etson- because they weren’t joking, and a lot of it was truly offensive. Biff’s comment was a joke, riffing off of another person’s comment. Some of us can still tell the difference, even if you and benson can’t.
right? buy-bye europe, you wont be missed.
it boggles my mind why so many people in this country want to be so much like europe!
*rob*
Talk is cheap, starting a business is not 🙁 COME ON LOTTO!
By Arkady on April 28, 2010 11:08 AM
It’s very complicated to sell baked goods – lots of codes & licenses.
As with any small or self-run business you also need a good plan, significant financing (as MM points out) and good luck, plus the will to sacrifice and work your ass off (which means not posting on Brownstoner all day, unless that’s key to your business plan).
It’s easy to say, “You should start a business!” but as the saying goes, talk is cheap.
Spains unemployment is approaching 30%. Theirs is the real estate debacle to the 10th power.
Today’s Deadbeat Country du’Jour……..SPAIN.
On the cookie scale of 1-10, where cobble’s are a 10, Girl Scout cookies are somewhere around 1 1/2 – 2.
[DIBS gets instant penance for everything he’s ever said that upset cobble]
Joking or not is irrelevant to whether something is offensive.
lechacal- great story! your uncle sounds like the male version of my aunt, who was a world traveler and quite a character. I once described her as a combination of Auntie Mame and Field Marshall Rommel.
Yes etson- because they weren’t joking, and a lot of it was truly offensive. Biff’s comment was a joke, riffing off of another person’s comment. Some of us can still tell the difference, even if you and benson can’t.