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"We had a hard time hiding all the ugly cables we had behind our computers. We had two desktops and a few laptops as well as printers. We had a roommate at the time who had a computer, printer and hubs.
The room itself was very pretty. We had painted and put in crown molding and a new desk. All of the computer cables made the room look ugly. I was looking for products to hide them or conceal them, and I could not find anything. I looked for a month and a half to find products and I finally got the idea of putting Velcro straps around the cables to bundle them. I then found a surface raceway at HomeDepot which we were able to stick the bundled cables into.
My husband and I thought that we could not be the only people who had that problem. A lot of people have more than one computer or a media center. There are a lot of cables in American homes. We decided, spur of the moment, to set up a website to tell people about a few products they could purchase to conceal wires. We only had a couple of pages on the website. After about a week I started getting comments on the website. People were asking us where they could buy the products, so my husband and I decided to purchase $40 worth of inventory in our garage, and we started selling the products online."
Bootstrapping e-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 1) | Sramana Mitra
The room itself was very pretty. We had painted and put in crown molding and a new desk. All of the computer cables made the room look ugly. I was looking for products to hide them or conceal them, and I could not find anything. I looked for a month and a half to find products and I finally got the idea of putting Velcro straps around the cables to bundle them. I then found a surface raceway at HomeDepot which we were able to stick the bundled cables into.
My husband and I thought that we could not be the only people who had that problem. A lot of people have more than one computer or a media center. There are a lot of cables in American homes. We decided, spur of the moment, to set up a website to tell people about a few products they could purchase to conceal wires. We only had a couple of pages on the website. After about a week I started getting comments on the website. People were asking us where they could buy the products, so my husband and I decided to purchase $40 worth of inventory in our garage, and we started selling the products online."
Bootstrapping e-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 1) | Sramana Mitra
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