Entrepreneurial pursuits
With each of the three businesses I started, I have struggled with balancing values of sustainability and transparency with fair pricing, decent margins and market demand for these values. Supply chain management has also been a challenge, as has scalability.
My business pursuits haven’t worked out for one reason or another…but I have learned so much from each of them. Given that 90% of start-ups fail and most entrepreneurs are made not born, I am not losing heart just yet.
I have decided to pause and take stock of how I might solve these problems. Staying true to my values is paramount so only when I crack that code, shall I sail back into the stormy seas of entrepreneurship.
Options Trading
I got into this when I decided to close down shop with my last business. My husband had, like many others, started trading in earnest during covid. I jumped in a year later and am hooked. My husband, who has much more sharply honed skills tutors me without losing patience and hands me thick books which I crack open now and again.
Angel Investments
My first role as an angel is with the amazing, one and only, Righteous Kitchen! Started and run by my brilliant and tireless friend and mother of four, Mimi Tolkin and her husband, Matt, this business provides take away meals as well as catering. My husband and I are on the board of advisors. Exciting! Especially, because I know that if anyone can make this a roaring success, it is this amazing couple.
Ranjini iyer 