Turning “What If?” into a Multimillion Dollar Business

Persistence, time and energy. That’s the difference between “what if” and product success, and Lori Greiner has all three. After years of having ideas for products and even books and sitting on the sidelines, she grew tired of thinking about what might happen. So when she had a promising idea for an earring organizer, she immediately got to work. Read more

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It didn’t take long for Edie Ames to get hooked on life in the restaurant business. She started as a teenage waitress at a Bakers Square in Chicago, and that was it. She liked the fast pace, the energy and the interaction with people. “The restaurant industry just grabbed hold of me at that point, and then I had no desire to do anything else,” Ames says. Read more