If you’re focused on selling consumer products, as I am, there’s no better place to research and discover new product ideas than Amazon.
I’m so obsessed with chocolate that I bought the domain with some partners and built a business around it. It was a tough business to run (expensive shipping, low margin, highly perishable product) and we eventually decided to divest ourselves of operations and sell the domain. www.chocolate.com
After reading countless biographical books about business leaders and industry titans, I’ve come to realize that failures and fuck ups are a normality in business.