Shari Hammond is the inventor of Store It! Cabinet Caddy! and Go Hang It! A single Mom from Austin, Texas, Shari loves to create helpful inventions for the home.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Shari’s Dad
When business started difficulties overcame:
“first and foremost its capital. When you invent products for a living you are paying for the prototypes, the moulds, and the patent’s, and the packaging and marketing all before you have even sold a single unit. And so capital is really the biggest challenge”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Fail Until You Don’t: Fight Grind Repeat Book by Bobby BonesFavourite Quote:
“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Free Online Barcode Generator – Create Print-Ready Barcodes. The world s most capable barcode generator Easily create any barcode in EPS, PNG or JPEG format
Also mentioned
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“find people along the way that you work well with and you trust. In business who you know is just as important as what you know. And so being able to get sound advice from people in your circle and in your industry is so valuable”…[Listen for More]
More About Shari Hammond:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Unknown
Other Quotes From the Chat with Shari Hammond:
- “solve a problem… fit a need… having a broad enough market… and having a wow factor”
- “I would have made the leap to start my own business earlier”
- “another thing that I did not know in the beginning… I knew that patent took a long time, I didn’t know that trademarking took a long time… Trademarking takes a year sometimes two years to go through… Getting that trademarking done in the beginning is key”
- “secret to success is to not be afraid to fail”
- “two out of three of the things that you create are not going to be good products. You have to be constantly willing to fail and go back to the drawing board. It’s just the process that everybody has to go through”
- “you are always trying to create a better mousetrap”
- “you have to wear many hats and you have many tasks that you have to accomplish. You just make a list, prioritise, take a walk and start checking them off one by one”
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