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Our Seven-Year Itch
Really? Seven years?
It's hard to believe that it's been seven years, but that otherwise annoying website/span generator LinkedIn notified me that seven years ago this month, I stopped calling myself a lawyer and started calling myself a chandelier maker. I could hardly believe it.
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We launched just a few months before great recession. Even though we didn't know much about this new marketplace and were selling relatively expensive things at a time when everything looked like it was falling apart, we somehow survived.