Three entrepreneurs recount the time when they turned failure into success.

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When Life Gives You Lemons…
How 3 Entrepreneurs Turned Sour Moments into Sweet Success
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From legal obstacles to financial
setbacks, three entrepreneurs recount
the time they almost gave up.

3. Michael Diamant
CEO/Founder of Skip Hop
Crib bumpers were banned in Chicago. “Instead
of backing out of the bedding business, we saw
an opportunity to design something different.”
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4. Laura Zander
Co-founder of Jimmy
Beans Wool
“A few years after opening our store, our tax bill was
higher than our cash flow at the end of the year. We
had to reevaluate our finances and have since kept a
cushion in case our inventory sales are lower than we
expect.” Read more.

5. Emily Sugihara
Co-founder and president
of Baggu
“When our first samples came back from the first factory
we talked to, they looked terrible. We had a few days
where we worried that no one else could ever make the
bags as carefully as we did.” Read more.

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Make lemonade. Photo Credits:
Slide 1: Karen Lee/Flickr
Slide 2: go_nils/Flickr
Slide 3: Skip Hop
Slide 4: Frank Haxton/Digiman Studio
Slide 5: Baggu
Slide 6: Aaron Katchen/Flickr
Slide 7: Tarehna Wicker/Flickr