For most of my life, I have been hoarding gold. Whether it be gold jewelry or gold bars, I have been buying it up along the way at a discount. I thought that it could prove useful to me someday, but I didn’t know when.
It wasn’t until recently that I truly realized the value of all the gold that I had amassed. You see, I wanted to open up a pizzeria in our town, but I needed the capital to open it. After I was denied financing at the bank, I was left with two options: find some money on my own, or find an investor.
I followed my first instinct and I tried to find an investor, but I was unable to find anyone that wanted to invest in an unproven startup. I couldn’t blame them since a large number of businesses had closed in town this year already.
At this point, I wasn’t ready to give up on my dream of owning a pizzeria, but I didn’t know where I was going to get the funds to start the business. But my mother suggested that I could come up with the money by selling the gold jewelry I had collected.
I hadn’t thought of that.
In the end, I was able to sell my gold and come up with enough money for the first year of operations on my own. I just hope that this business venture does well.