One of today's most prolific e-tailing sites was built on little more than passion to realise a vision. THAT is passion. It keeps me up all night fixing the bug that customer e-mailed me about. It motivates me to constantly hone my skills to create a better shopping experience for every visitor. It makes me learn what I might otherwise have to buy - important when you're building a site on a shoestring budget.
Entrepreneurs are no strangers to passion.
So she put together a product line, got help from Rob with HTML, and went live with a commerce-enabled Web site in June of 1997. Danielle spends much of her time working late at night, after her own son has gone to sleep. I love knowing that we're satisfying a real need. Mother's Nature has passion for their e-business. But we soon learned that selling directly to the customer, not the middleman, was the way to go.