I started my very first profitable business in the 4th grade. I remember my teacher was Mrs. Morgan. She was rather avant-garde. Anyhow, I learned with the proper marketing and salesmanship one could sell damn near anything. I mixed high-gluten flour, water, food coloring, and different spices together for flavoring and sold Edible Glue Gunk (or as I called it: EGG) to children in my elementary school, Burnett. I enjoyed success initially, but decided to ‘open source’ my recipe. Sales suffered after that. I guess I was into open source and free knowledge even back then. By the way, I believe this was the same year I wrote my first line of code on an old Apple computer. Anyhow, I suppose many of my EGG sales were attributable to the popularity of that slime stuff they call Gak back then. Hey, mine was edible man! Talk about product differentiation.
My first business
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