Just as broken hearts can inspire some of the most creative art and music, so also can broken hearts inspire successful business ventures. Joshua Opperman, Ellie Scarborough, and David Maname all turned their unluck in love to luck in business. The Wall Street Journal tells more:
Mr. Opperman found out the hard way— after his fiancée dumped him—that you can’t sell a ring back to the dealer for anything close to what you paid for it. Ms. Scarborough discovered, after weeks of moping over her ex-boyfriend, that other women in the same boat would pay for a service that helped them cheer up and move on. And Mr. Mamane, a jeweler whose girlfriend demanded a pricey three-carat engagement ring that he couldn’t afford, rang up $15 million in sales last year through a website that sells jewelry to love-struck couples with bigger hearts than wallets.
“I haven’t spoken to my ex-fiancée since the day she left me,” says Mr. Opperman, whose site, IDoNowIDont.com, generated $1 million in sales last year by enabling consumers to buy and sell diamond rings and other jewelry on the Web, cutting out the middlemen and their markups. “I was able to get complete closure and happiness when I sold her engagement ring on my website.”
Sometimes the best idea is the one that’s closest to your heart.
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