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As with all new ventures, there are folks that will come on the scene and explain why the new idea isn’t going to work, won’t make money, or is going to be much harder than you thought. I was expecting this. Sigh.
My wife, who was the person who gave me the idea in the first place, exclaiming that at a recent event she attended people were swarming the t-shirt stands, is now asking me if I ever saw anyone wearing the kinds of t-shirts I’m planning to sell. The thing is, at the quantities I plan to sell at, it would be years for the population would be saturated enough that the odds of me seeing someone with a shirt would exceed the odds of Paris Hilton spending more than a year in jail.
Then my sister-in-law, who is much closer to the field of interest than either my wife or I, in fact owned and later sold a business in that field, says they’re no money anywhere near the field of interest. I have to remember that what she’s probably really saying is that there wasn’t enough money there for her.
The problem with this kind of feedback is that it’s subjective. There’s no telling it’s true veracity, so it might as well be the ding-a-ling of wind chimes. But it sounds very important and valuable, so it’s hard to ignore. I’m starting to think that the hardest part of all this will be sticking to my own beliefs and having faith in my plan.