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The mindset of moving faster allowed me to test out new ideas and products quickly. If a product wasn’t working, I moved on. Of course, I lost money along the way, but this attitude of constantly trying enabled me to find a couple products that could actually stick in. This sense of urgency during the early days of my company drove me to obsess over what products the customers wanted, the strategies other sellers employed, and how I could emulate their ideas to create success. Facebook’s motto is “Move Fast and Break Things,” which I actually found after I had the idea to write this post (I guess Mark figured this out before I could). It’s imperative that every self-starting individual with absolutely no experience works quickly and efficiently without a broken heart. Looking back on my accidental approach, I don’t regret it at all. I ended up earning back the losses I accumulated during the first few months, and now have products that customers like to buy. While it is equally important to see the details of every situation to make the most informed decision, especially when starting a small company, it is essential to move like a torpedo and test out strategies until one actually works. And so, I have finally realized that true entrepreneurs are just like little children: they move fast and break things.

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I’m particularly excited about this blog because I love to write. Ever since I was a child, I’ve been documenting memories into handmade scrapbooks crafted of printer paper and yarn. I wrote my first novel at 15 under a pseudonym and published all 235 pages a year and a half later, and I recently also delved into poetry, prose, and film scripts. There’s just something so captivating in words holding our thoughts together for eternity. Unfortunately, I stopped writing for a while to make my educational dreams come true, but this blog is the perfect way to motivate myself to continue to invent.

This blog is about risks, failure, laughter and tears. It’s all the mistakes I’ve made that have led up to what Qualitrusty is today. It’s behind-the-scenes work that no one ever gets to see. It’s my promise to myself to continue and let success crown my endeavors. To me, it’s the beginning of invention.

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It was a pretty surreal moment, given the fact that it’s difficult to find a customer who went to the same high school, with over hundreds of millions of customers shopping online. What are the odds of her stumbling across my page? I still consider it a great moment, and though she never responded, it still makes me happy to think that I’m serving customers within driving distance and across oceans. Thanks for reading!

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Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. Amazon couldn’t handle the huge traffic surged caused by the popularity of the event which led to a cascading series of errors. When I woke up to check Amazon, I had hoped to see dozens of products and the next best sale; however, I was greeted with a ‘Sorry’ in a minimalistic font and a German shepherd named Barney. Everywhere, news articles spoke of Amazon’s pages and strange dogs appearing on their websites. CNET’s top headline read “Prime Day 2018 and the 404 Dogs of Amazon.” What a ruff way to start off a historic day.

I know I’m not on the best of terms with Jeff Bezos (we recently had a falling-out after he stole my hair tie), but I must say Prime day wasn’t prime for me. My anticipation of my first Prime day as a seller and not a buyer, almost as noteworthy as my first birthday or first homecoming, had blown through the wind like a plastic bag. Though I’m sure Jeff probably ended up firing about 500 tech employees that day, it was still noteworthy in that Amazon’s blow-up caused a string of blow-ups of hundreds of news sources reporting on the catastrophe. And though it may still be seen as a calamity, the statistics prove otherwise: over 100 million products were sold during the 36 hour event, and Prime Day was declared the biggest shopping event in company history. This shows how integral Amazon is in our society today—not many companies can sell hundreds of millions within a time frame of less than two days, can get away with Error pages of excuses and pugs, and still make it out with popularity unscathed. I’m proud to be part of an organization that champions the use of the Internet (and dogs) to bring products to customers worldwide. Prime Day may not have been the glowing image everyone perceived, but I learned a lot more about Amazon in those 36 hours. The company bounced back, handled the angry customers, and still made it out on top despite competing customers. To Amazon, every day is prime day.

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