Mike Andes' Texas lawn-care startup aimed to hit $1 million in year one, but the ramp supplier delayed delivery by a week, pushing the whole launch back two weeks. He's adjusting plans to roll with the punches and keep the startup on track.
Okay, so for the challenge out in Texas where we are starting a lawn care business and going to $1 million in 1 year, everyone's gonna think that everything's gonna go super smooth and we're only gonna show the good parts. Well, like most businesses, bad things happen. So I was hoping that 4 vans would be purchased, completely retrofitted with a ramp, all the vents, everything that we needed, and wrapped by the time we got there. In a week. Well, turns out the ramp guys have a different schedule. They cannot produce or ship them in time, and then they gotta get installed. Then we gotta get wrapped. So we're already gonna be a week and a half behind the schedule we had hoped to have, which is when I landed, we started running ads. Now when we land, it won't be till the week after that the ramps can get installed, and then we have to wait for the ramps to get installed before we can wrap the thing. So we're already a couple weeks delayed. So bad things happen, but he's gotta roll with the punches.
