CHAPTER 2
JUST A COUPLE OF LOSERS
LOSING MONEY Leon As we approached college graduation and all of our friends were interviewing for jobs, Tiff and I had no idea what we should do. We were working on the business at night but weren’t making anywhere near enough sales to support ourselves after graduation. However, we felt something special was going on. There was a buzz about what we were doing. At the end of college, we were skipping school so often to deliver cookies to downtown businesses that we thought maybe there was an opportunity to expand. But that meant we’d have to risk it all and commit to doing this as our fulltime job and career. Looking at our numbers, we didn’t know how we could run the business and pay our bills. We’d been fortunate enough to have our parents financially support us while we were in college, but upon graduation, that would end. I remember telling a friend who asked what UT graduation day! 17
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