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I think the ownership piece I would do differently if I had to start over or start again. Knowing what I know now, it is hard to have a partnership. You need someone to set a strategic direction and having a partner sometimes slows you down. But, through this first business I started, having a partner initially was a blessing, because I don’t think I would have had the confidence to do this alone. I gained the confidence when I started to get more into the concept and by the time I bought my partner out of the business, I was able to reshape the vision of the business to a place that is a better fit with the market need. Starting with someone else gave me the confidence to drive the business on my own. Owning a business truly is experiential learning. You have to go through the experience in the real world to truly learn how to run a business. It is a process of doing, constantly learning, and understanding how you are going to assimilate new information into the business.