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If you won the lotto - or had cash fall out of the sky from whatever source - would that change your entrepreneurial dream?  Would you do something completely different from the path you`re on now, or would you still have the same dream only perhaps with modifications?

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Kathleen Grant
Web Developer
StartupNation

I would pretty much be the same program, only difference; It would be on steroids.

Kathleen,

Very intriguing question. Coincidentally, that is exactly the question I asked myself before I, at long last, embarked on my plan to open my own photography business. I was at the proverbial crossroads in my life (the kids are all but grown up, so mom needs to reassert her own identity) and wanted to make sure I pursued something meaningful and befitting my character. After many unsatisfactory years spent in the business and legal world, I finally realized that if I had all the money in the world I would travel, take photographs and write.

And, voila`, that`s what I am doing. Of course, I don`t get to travel as much as I would like to just yet. My kids are still in school, and my husband works 10+ hours days. But, we do travel whenever possible, and I am knee deep in photography and writing - just the way I like it!

-Kim

Apparently it wouldn`t change anything for Cookiemonster, as he`d give the whole thing to the American Humane Society. I just want to say that as the single, international representative and bookkeeper for the AHS, anyone interested in a similar idea should email me for um...our uh...corporate address. We accept cash, cashier`s checks, precious metals, jewles, and money orders. :-)

I worked for a small restaurant chain years ago and there was a guy who owned a small dairy who delivered the milk each week.  He won the lottery, and we expected to never see him again, but there he was the next week, delivering the milk.  I don`t know what changes he made in other aspects of his life, but business carried on as usual.  I always thought that was interesting - he clearly didn`t go crazy with the money.



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Kathleen Grant
Web Developer
StartupNation

I would change only one thing. I would advertise so that wartimethings.com was a household name.

Maybe even start a cereal by that name.

What do you think? Sugar coated shapes of ammo with marshmallow hand grenades?

I think it`d work.

Dan

And the surprise inside the box would be a gun that shot the pieces of cereal... :-D

LOL!  I have a friend who has a Persian rug that most people don`t give a second thought to - it just registers as an oriental carpet and they don`t stop to contemplate the shapes in it.  But it`s actually made up of tanks and missiles and the like...  (He`s in the aerospace industry and picked it up somewhere along the line).  So I`ll believe shapes of ammo...



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Kathleen Grant
Web Developer
StartupNation

I think we may be onto something. My pitch line is Where your next combat experience is in your own backyard so maybe for the cereal we`ll use the pitch line:

An EXPLOSION of taste in every bite!!

Ha!! Now I`m having fun.

Dan