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Comment on Ask HN: Has anyone here dabbled in non-tech entrepreneurship?

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I launched a seasonal product to ship necessities to college-bound freshmen called Dorm Duffle. You can see the flyer for it here: http://hirevito.com/oldportfolio/dormduffle/

Flyers were sent "to the parents of" over 15,000 incoming freshmen students for several universities in the southwest. We had one order.

Not one percent. Just one.

Market research might have told us that we might have been able to launch such a thing in NYC, but perhaps that in the southwest, people like shopping for their kids.

I don't see my entrepreneurship activities as tech or non-tech. They're all curiosity and problem-solving.

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