Listen to successful entrepreneurs, even if you don’t want to hear what they have to say. I will admit I was pretty arrogant and stubborn when I started. I was young (22) and thought I could do it all on my own. Some really nice people tried to give me advice and I just ignored (most of) them. I needed the Sharks criticizing me on national television to realize that I did not have the answers and I needed to take advice.
As a part of my series about the ‘5 Important Business Lessons I Learned While Being On The Shark Tank’ I had the pleasure of interviewing Kelly Costello. Kelly is the owner and founder of Puppy Cake LLC. She began the company in 2007 just before her 22nd birthday. She started the company with 2 cake mix for dogs flavors and has since grown it to 14 different products and a multi million dollar company. Kelly lives Evans City, PA with her husband, 5 rescue dogs and 2 rescued cats.