We recently connected with Waylon Senn and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Waylon, thanks for joining us today. How do you feel about asking friends and family to support your business? What’s appropriate, what’s not? Where do you draw the line?

In the beginning I think everyone has there head in the clouds when it comes to sharing a new idea, and as excited as we are we tend to expect others to feel the same way. The problem is that those closest to you dontwant to see you get hurt. They may have been burned on a failed attempt in there own past, or that just can’t visualize your dream the way you can. It’s not really until you have proven results that they start to come over to your side. The flipside is that there always seems to be small portion that will always support win, lose, or draw when it gets tough those are the people you can rely on the most.

Waylon, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

It really comes down to complete accident. I grew up on a small family farm, and moved to the big city of Fort Worth afyer High School. I went from being surrounded by land to be what felt like trapped in a small backyard. After hours of cleaning up after my own dogs in this now tiny space a fleeding thought about “I wonder if anyone would pay me to do this” came into my head for a moment only.
Two years later I was divorced and needing some extra cash. I remembered my idea or a pooper scooper business and that weekend I made up some very cheap flyers on my aging laptop, and 10 years later here we are today.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

In the beginning we didn’t care where our clients came from as long ad we could make some money. Sooner then later however we were driving all over DFW and once we crunched the numbers we were losing money and adding extra wear and tear to our vehicles each day we went out.
Within a week we canceled over half our clients and made a commitment to only service clients within a small set radius that we could easily manage.

Can you talk to us about how your funded your business?

That’s just it we didn’t have any start up capital. We were living paycheck to paycheck and most of the time we couldn’t even afford that. Our start ups costs came from me working my days off at my night job, and borrowing money from friends to help pay the bills while we scrapped together what we need to get started. Now we use industrial dust pans and specific rakes. In the beginning we used gloves, trash bags and our hands. It wasn’t until meeting others in the industry that we figured out where we needed to invest our first few checks that came in.

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