Mehdi: This wasn’t our first Felix: Did either Did either previous of you have any previous business. He fax lists and I both started a company. We were just entrepreneurial in spirit. We started out just doing T-shirt printing. I feel like a lot of people’s first business is printing and selling T-shirts. Then we moved on to importing and selling equipment to print T-shirts. We found that was more profitable than printing the T-shirts ourselves, so we started running the machines and basically getting the equipment to other people who were starting out and wanted to start a business.

business evolved. Before Did either previous we started

The bike business, we imported mid-century style furniture. That business was pretty successful right off the bat. I think we made $1 million in our first year, and we were 23, which was awesome. . We’ve been selling bikes full-time for over 10 years now. We really love what we’re doing.

A bike from State  Bicycle Co

Brothers Reza and Mehdi Farsi turned rye dalton vice president commercial operations their love of biking into State Bicycle Company. State Bicycle
Felix: Can you share some things, some america email of the most important lessons you learned from each business that helped you get off the ground faster in future businesses?