How to Become Your Own BossThe creators of natural sleep aid Dream Water share how they ditched corporate life and gained national success.
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系统性红斑狼疮文森特Porpiglia并不陌生epless nights. After graduating from college during a recession with few job prospects, he was tossing and turning one night when he came up with the idea forDream Water,一个自然的液体治疗失眠夜ntually developed and perfected. With partner David Lekach, a former investment banker and fellow insomniac, Porpiglia launched Dream Products in 2009 and began selling Dream Water in Duane Reade drugstores across New York City. Today, Dream Water is sold in 15,000 stores nationwide, including Walmart and Walgreens. While the private company doesn't release its revenue figures, Dream Products is on track for 350 percent growth over 2010 revenue, which was in the low seven figures.
Getting there wasn't easy. "We had to leave the security of existing jobs and throw ourselves 100 percent into Dream Water," Lekach says. "We started with a vision that we wanted to accomplish, then we set goals that would make that vision successful. Then we worked toward meeting those goals. We had to eat, live, breathe and dream about Dream Water every single day."
