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.
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NAICS: 238 Specialty Trade Contractors Description: repair, remodel, custom homes and new construction |
| What got him into the plumbing business was prior work experience, he was sick of being thrown/bossed around. He wanted to be his own boss and make more money. |
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2012-04-11 16:34:54 |
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NAICS: 315 Apparel Manufacturing Description: Apparel Company |
| When I was in high school all I ever wore was tee shirts and hoodies. One day me and my friends decided to go to the indoor mall and make our own shirts and thats how it started. Towards the beginning selling clothes out of the trunk of my car was just a way of getting quick cash, but when i noticed i had a nack for selling my own brand, and that my brand was in higher damand, i knew I would get bigger and my company would blow up. |
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2012-04-11 14:52:03 |
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NAICS: 332 Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing Description: Custom iron work |
| I decided to get into this type of business because it was something that I did growing up and I did it well so I just kept at it. My initial goal was to do this business with my older brother but of course with a family business comes family problems. We both went our own ways and I now operate the business by myself and he went back to Mexico to continue his own. In the end I just want to do what I must do to survive in this tough economy. |
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2012-04-11 14:07:32 |
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NAICS: 334 Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing Description: Cell Phone Store |
| I wanted to be my own boss and have the liberty to make my own decisions. My goal was to have a successful business that will endure time and the changes with the world. |
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2012-04-11 13:53:40 |
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NAICS: 811 Repair and Maintenance Description: Pool and Spa maintenance |
| When I was younger I lived next door to a man that owned his own pool company. At the time I was working a full-time factory job to support my family. He offered me a part-time weekend job cleaning pools. After a while I decided that I could do it on my own so I started a job out of it and got a couple of my own pools. Little by little I started getting more pools and needed help so I had my friend help me clean pools and my wife ran the office from home. Since 1993 I have ran my own business and most of it was ran out of my own house. |
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2012-04-11 13:31:23 |
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NAICS: 448 Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores Description: Accessories |
| I started because it was cost efficient, and creative. I can put things together. Its affordable for people to buy . Any woman any size can buy it . Women may not be comfortable buying a shirt because of their size. but anyone can buy accessories. |
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2012-04-11 13:19:50 |
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NAICS: 423 Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods Description: Selling Games |
| My first job was gradually giving me a hard time, then eventually started to shutdown. A friend had helped me out to find a job, then overtime I own the store called Gamestop. I have obtained my initial goal. The only thing I need to do is keep doing what I like doing. |
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2012-04-11 12:04:29 |
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NAICS: 811 Repair and Maintenance Description: 811 |
| I decided to get into this type of business because for one, I like to fix things, but the main reason I got into this field of business is that immediate satisfaction of knowing it was done right. My initial goals for the business were to have a long term job, to pay my bills, and to make my family happy. |
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2012-04-11 09:07:04 |
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NAICS: 722 Food Services and Drinking Places Description: Specialty Asian Food |
| I used to work for the State Board of Equalization in Riverside doing Audits. Being there, I was able to take a look at almost every single business in the area and how much these businesses were yielding. I noticed that some Asian markets were making up to a couple hundred thousand per year and these markets were not big. I also noticed that there was a market untouched by entrepreneurs, especially with the demographic of the UCR; and that market was the specialty Asian food market. With the amount of overseas Asian population that currently attended the school, more than half want to be able to enjoy that taste of home and get those small snacks, drinks and foods that they would normally get back home. In addition, the closest Asian food markets are 20+ miles away and most of the students have no ways of getting to those markets, so I decided it was a good move to open right next to the universities extension center were a great majority of foreign students passed through. |
| Date Submitted:
2012-04-11 07:30:40 |
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NAICS: 711 Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries Description: Non profit basketball program |
| Although I’ve always loved sports, I never thought I would make a business out of it. My initial goal in starting was to coach my nephew in basketball. |
| Date Submitted:
2012-04-11 06:56:39 |
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