Blog: The Girlfriend My Wife Doesn’t Know About
The Girlfriend My Wife Doesn’t Know About
Run date: January 19, 2011
Shelley Hunter is the founder of GiftCardGirlfriend.com. She’s also a stay-at-home mom to three young kids. “When I had my first baby, I invented a baby carrier cover and naively thought I’d start a family business selling the product. When a forklift dropped a pallet of inventory on my driveway, however, I realized I was totally unprepared to be both a mom and an entrepreneur.” Her family needed the income, but Shelley had quit a full-time job to be with her children. It didn’t make sense to then work full-time to run a business instead. Eventually, she licensed the invention to another company and decided to work freelance for others until the kids got older. Now, with the youngest is in first grade, she’s started a new business—but one that is a culmination of the experiences she’s had in the ten years she’s been working for others. In fact, Shelley confesses “though my initial venture felt like a failure for a long time, I now see that it helped me gain insight needed to be where I am today.”
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