Students may find different ways to find how to make money. Some sell shoes or maybe even sell food, even you can’t unless it is for a club. But for me and my two friends we try to make a name for ourselves.  And we did.

We sell many items with our brand name being OUTRO. It was all just a brainstorm as we were sitting on the couches at Costco and thought of a wonderful idea to sell these products. Three guys dreaming of making money but unaware of the obstacles in front of us before we had any chance of trying to make even a cent. Doing this made us realize to make money like this, you have to spend money. It taught us risk and it taught us how to persevere when things seemed dismal.

We saw the future but the first thing to get off our plate was to get our trademark. Making sure that brand was ours was such a huge step, but it was worth it because not only was it a step in a direction of my dreams, but it was the reality aspect of it. It was hard though because we had to pay quite a bit of money and we had to have prototypes. Our designer created mostly shirts and shoes, seemingly small in comparison to our big dreams, but everyone has to start somewhere.

As that was being taken care of we also had to start getting people to actually buy our products which honestly was the easiest. We had mostly friends but we also had a few branches of people to that would eventually step up and buy.  

Maturing not only has to do with literally getting older, but also with taking steps in a direction of responsibility. And that’s exactly what we did to get our brand out there. Though you may have your ups and downs if you put yourself in the right state of mind and focus on what you want then you will be the best you that you can be.