In my past entrepreneurial life, I started and ran a retail paint-your-own-pottery studio in Ashburn, VA. Just before opening the store in 2002, I'd quit my engineering career to do this. In 2004, I realized that at heart, I was a geeky engineer so I went back to that and for the next 3 years held both my full-time "day job" and ran/managed the store.

The full accounting of my business is now summed up in two books that should be read by anyone planning on taking a similiar path:

Please read them. Please write a (positive) review on Amazon! And I'd love to hear what people think or if there are other questions I could answer.