One winter as a kid who was also an aspiring entrepreneur. Opportunity arose. There was a big snow day. This excited me not just because of the snow sledding, snow angels, and snowmen I would be making, but I also hoped to make some money shoveling sidewalks. I actually walked door to door and asked every house if they would pay me to shovel their walk. Sometime I’m amazed that I had such courage at that age, or maybe I didn’t have enough social awareness to be afraid. But I walked around for most of the day, shoveled a few walks, and barely made any money. Some of them I did in exchange for cookies. Ambition is essential. Sales are great. But you need to know how to price yourself. I don’t think I had enough revenue to make the time worth it, yet I had a good time and this was one of my first experiences with entrepreneurship.

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