Navigating Your Way to Startup Success

Chapter 2Failing to Start—What’s stopping you?

It was 1993 and I was in high school. Nirvana, Aerosmith, and Boys II Men were heard constantly on the radio. No, I didn’t have big hair—that was the 80s—but I did have a car and it needed gas. I was willing to work just about any job for gas and going out money. I also had a fair amount of old Star Wars toys, Nintendo games, and of course many somewhat valuable baseball cards.

“We could have a garage sale,” my friend Richard said, as though it were genius.

“At whose house? Because my parents will want a cut,” I replied, knowing my family’s long standing garage sale policy. Granted, they usually sat there the entire time and all I did was lay stuff out, but still, I was pretty sure they would want ...