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1,308 entrepreneurs were asked: "How did you decide to get into this type of business, and what was your initial goal?" These were their responses, which can help us to try to figure out what type of business we might like to start. Please scroll below:

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NAICS: 722 Food Services and Drinking Places
Description: Mediterranean food and pastry.
At first, I began a small catering business from home for friends and family. We would make delicious pastries and fresh Mediterranean food for all kinds of parties and gatherings. Word of mouth started to spread and we started getting orders from mutual friends. Throughout the time, people were loving our food and we were getting calls from people we did not even know. Eventually, it became time to move on to the next step in the business, and buy an actual restaurant. With the help and support from all of our friends and family, we were able to open dine in restaurant as well as a separate catering business that runs in the back of the kitchen. I have always loved cooking and culinary arts, and with the help and support form so many, I was fortunate enough to own my own place.
Date Submitted: 2015-10-22 02:32:06
NAICS: 453 Miscellaneous Store Retailers
Description: tobacco and vapor shop
The smoke shop was one of the easiest type of business to start with, because of the small budget that needed it to start with and the cigarette now days became a consuming product same as food so your business will never stop. I released that the smoke shop in that area is really important in that location because it is a community that filled with smokers. I have a lot of experience in that business because I have been working the last seven years with it. That helped me to determine what type of business to start with. My actual goal is to enter the market by attracting as much as I can customers to have my own name in that business and then sell it in much higher price than the one I started with.
Date Submitted: 2015-10-22 00:59:46
NAICS: 442 Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores
Description: Traditional Chinese Rose Wood Furniture Shopping Mall
In the past, I operated a regular furniture shopping mall. However, with the increasing competitiveness of market, I had to change my ideas to consider the transformation of company to meet the demand of market and consumers. Now I operate the furniture shopping mall to sell traditional furniture such as rosewood furniture. I choose this business for some reasons: a. the needs of protection environment. Panel furniture often contains some chemical material which is bad for our body. For instance, if we buy a new house, we need to buy some new furniture to decorate the house to make it beautifully. However, the panel furniture always includes some toxic substances and is easy to damage. On the contrary, if we choose the solid furniture, we can avoid the unhappiness. b. The value of furniture with preserving and increasing. Panel furniture is easy to damage and hard to preserve, but the solid furniture is good to preserve and hard to damage, instead solid furniture will not lose its value with the passage of the time and will boost its value. c. To meet the demand of market. With changing of the notions of people, more and more persons want to have good life with healthy lifestyle. Solid furniture is not only environmental but also healthy to people.
Date Submitted: 2015-10-22 00:38:05
NAICS: 722 Food Services and Drinking Places
Description: Mexican Restauraunt
Our business has been in a way a family business. Most of my family owns or works in the food industry so it was somewhat obvious for me to begin my own business as well. The initial goal for this restaurant was and still is to maintain a good business that would generate a lot of profit. I wanted to create a business that will help support my family and each of their needs. As time has gone on, I have also had personal goals to simply maintain the best business I could have. I want to provide the best customer service. I do this by making sure each of my customer feels welcomed and by having conversation to each of my customers. I like to get to know my customers that way we can have more of a personal relationship.
Date Submitted: 2015-10-22 00:28:06
NAICS: 448 Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores
Description: women contemporary fashion boutique
1. Me and my wife were looking for small business to open and different ideas came to us, but we decide to go with the boutique because my wife share a passion for fashion and women clothing. After we decided that the boutique was the business for us, our goal was to provide good quality products to the community at affordable prices and also to make profit and provide a better future for our family.
Date Submitted: 2015-10-22 00:26:03
NAICS: 334 Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
Description: Manufacture and sells computer memory
It was at a point in my life that I had hit the lowest. I had to close my previous business and declare bankruptcy. It ruined my credit rating. My family and I had to move into a one bed room apartment. I got into this business through a friend. He had an idea and we thought we could make it work. He became my business partner. My initial goal was to get out of that one bedroom apartment, move to a house, and become financially stable again. For the business though, I wanted to slowly build the company and keep a sustainable cash flow.
Date Submitted: 2015-10-22 00:02:40
NAICS: 335 Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
Description: LED Lighting declaration, bulb light.
I jumped into this business because of my good friend. He referred me to our company’s owner, Louis Ko. My initial goal is to grow the sales in the LED lighting declaration market. And as time goes, we have brought more products like the tape light, robe light and LED bulb light as a result of the market demand.
Date Submitted: 2015-10-22 00:02:05
NAICS: 561 Administrative and Support Services
Description: online service about car parts
Because my friend suggested me to do this business. Once the service is difficult to do but we have a lot of good profits . As I now I earn a lot of money , because I do it very carefully , and I have a lot of good reviews online. So I did well , and got a lot of software recommended. On this point I'm really happy.I started there is no big goal is to want to do the first step , and then slowly do . If some very serious situation and I can not give up, I have to do it. Of course, I met a lot of intermediate difficulty . For example, our site has been deliberately attack others , then many opponents pretend to write a bad product on the customer , but the experience of those we did not give up . Keep the original idea , the company did an online entity . I think our team is really not easy .My future goal is to want the company to do more and more, so that our company became a public company , so my company to the world. I want my company to become the industry first , so I will be very hard to do it all , too. Because the company is like my child, I do not want to let my children are a little suffering. So I have to move forward.
Date Submitted: 2015-10-21 23:54:17
NAICS: 448 Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores
Description: sells clothes and accessories for modern women
I decided to open my own type of business because I was always working for someone else's and I didn't like how half the people I worked with managed their business. I started to complain to my friends how bad and hard it was working for someone else. I didn't agree on how they ran their business so my friends told me that I should be independent and have my independent business rather than to work for someone else, that way I wouldn't have to deal with how others ran their business now having my own I would make it as possible as how my dream business has always been. Since I always dreamt in having my own business since most of my family members own one so I grew up with being in the business environment.
Date Submitted: 2015-10-21 23:46:03
NAICS: 811 Repair and Maintenance
Description: General Auto Repair
After seeing some of my family pass away and seeing that they worked their whole life and at the end didn’t have nothing to keep them occupied. Also, seeing my father get frustrated being home and not really being able get out of the house to do others things. I didn’t want to end up like that, I’m so use to always being busy and having something to do. Now that I have the shop when I get older I could at least get out of the house for a few hours and keep myself occupied.
Date Submitted: 2015-10-21 22:54:28
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