What is the highlight of your entrepreneurial achievements

**noob** · 03-12-2010 07:49 PM

As title suggests, I'm interested in knowing what everyone's greatest accomplishment is thus far in their entrepreneurial endeavors.

**CGM** · 03-15-2010 01:25 PM

Since I am still really early on in my "entrepreneurial career". my biggest highlight would be having the guts to go forth on my ideas.

I'm proud to say that soon I will be launching a full service web hosting company, offering business and personal hosting with great customer support for the newbies. I can also easily get enough local clients so to cover the cost of operation, and from there I grow.

Also excited about this clothing company I founded, we're going to launch by summer time and I have quite a few people, some well known in my target niches that are ready and willing to endorse the brand, and I have retail shops in several places in America (Santa Fe, Chicago, Louisville being the major ones) that is likely to carry it too.

So, I took the step and devoted a lot of my time to personal projects I enjoy, and for that I have been happy.

**noob** · 03-15-2010 03:40 PM

So if I read your response correctly, you're in the process of launching two businesses and these are going to be your first two?

**Southern_Lenders** · 03-15-2010 03:46 PM

Thus far my success is putting my ideas into action, with the hope of one day it all paying off.

**CGM** · 03-15-2010 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by noob

So if I read your response correctly, you're in the process of launching two businesses and these are going to be your first two?

Eh, more or less.

I do some web work, and I was the business manager/marketer/everything for a organic Pomegranate Orchard which I am no longer affiliated with.

So yeah, the highlights would be me doing my own thing.

**pacificfame** · 03-18-2010 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by CGM

Eh, more or less.

I do some web work, and I was the business manager/marketer/everything for a organic Pomegranate Orchard which I am no longer affiliated with.

So yeah, the highlights would be me doing my own thing.

What happened with the Pomegranate Orchard? I remember you posting the website you were having designed.

**CGM** · 03-18-2010 02:38 PM

To be quite honest, I am really not sure what had happened. I had planned on being out there for years, it was a project I was truly passionate about.

The owner of the land, a already VERY wealthy individual, I guess didn't need the place to be a success as bad as I needed it to be a success. I had laid out a business plan in which within five years we had a $1.2m POTENTIAL, with the new fields we've planted and the business I had set up. I would say the business name but I don't want affiliated with it anymore. I cut out the middle man, we were selling our products direct to our customers for full price.

I guess in the end, he got a lot of cheap labor out of me. I created the business and website, PR1-PR3 for several popular search terms, and did much physical labor out there in return for a modest weekly allowance and a place to live with no cost-of-living on my side...

But as mentioned, I don't think he needed it to be a success as bad as I did. I put up with the lack of results NOW, knowing that in the future it would really pay off. While obviously it hasn't for me, because I am no longer doing that, I will not look back at that time as bad. It gave me the entrepreneurial mindset and I came back home and didn't lose it. While there is nothing I am currently working on that would provide me with level of potential income that I did out there (20% of all profits), I still have some projects in the works that will hopefully work out well and allow me to fund larger, more tangible projects with larger possibilities.

There is a lot more too it, I am sure. But I had to work directly with this guy only four-days out of the month and somehow the level of stress and drama he was able to create on a farm that he doesn't even live at was astonishing. In the end, it was all of us (myself and two others) who were somewhat miserable in the middle of the desert with no social life, no friends, nothing all trying to be content because we knew the potential the place had and we were working are asses off trying to secure it and insure it'd be great for all of us.

The story is better told after a couple rounds, though

Eh, I had fun. I learned a lot about myself and business, while I was likely screwed over I gotta say I had a good times out there.

**The Stealthy One** · 03-22-2010 08:59 PM

So far, it's been selling my company to a PE firm last year. My cut was much smaller than you might think! But I look forward to continuing in success this year. The last couple of years has been rough, but these situations have become almost a sort of motivator for me. I am striving for excellence this year.