Why pet supplies and bakery, including those premium fresh baked biscuits?
I am a baker at heart. Cover me in flour! While working in my previous career I had a small side business baking for people’s events. When I got my dog, I started baking biscuits for her, then for friends’ dogs, then for clients. It just took off. Pets are such an important part of people’s lives. I felt if I was going to open a business I wanted to make a difference for people. I did not want to just open a business to make money, but to enrich people’s lives – and their pets. What’s the best advice you received as you were starting your business? Do your research. Make your business plan robust. Check your numbers over and over. Passion can only take you so far. You have to have the business to back you up. What advice would you give to someone starting up his/her own business? Make sure you are business savvy. You can have a great idea and concept, but need to know the nuts and bolts of managing the financial part of your business. What do you know now that you’d wish you had known
