Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling and other entrepreneurs launched successful ventures only after losing their day jobs. Who knew getting fired could be a great career move?
By Angus Loten - AOL Small Business:
When Charlotte Dulaney was 5 months pregnant with her third child, the furthest thing on her mind was launching a business. It was the late 1980s, and Dulaney, a 31-year-old IT manager for an electric subcontractor in Arvada, Colo., was busy enough juggling work and a growing family. To make matters worse, her daughter had recently suffered a burst appendix, forcing Dulaney to take a month off. Then, weeks before her maternity leave started, she was called into the boss’s office - and was fired for missing too much work.
‘I honestly didn’t know what I was going to do,’ Dulaney says. Too pregnant to start looking for a new job, she decided instead to try launching a business at home - something to do with computers, she figured. ‘Computers were what I knew, so I thought I’d look into that.’
The result was Baby-Cakes.com, an early online retailer specializing in gifts for baby showers. The business has since expanding into a 4,000-square-foot warehouse with 4 full-time employees and was once featured on HBO’s Sex in the City. Read on.
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