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Stop...And Sell The Flowers
By Fast Company
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Article Date: 2003-04-29
Two fast-track Dutch consultants decide that there's more to life than travel, presentations, and nonstop meetings. Their business plan for sanity? Selling tulip bulbs. Online. At a profit. Don't sneeze at the idea: The business is taking root.
When Pim Bouwman's friends learned that he was leaving his lucrative post at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting in Amsterdam during the billing boom of 1999, they thought he was nuts. How could you turn your back on all of that money? Then, when they heard that he planned to launch an Internet-based flower-bulb business during the dotcom implosion of 2000, they feared that he was downright self-destructive. How could you start that kind of business now?
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