Nudi Pasta.The start-up of a fresh pasta business.

Any person that knows me well, knows I'm always thinking of new business ideas. I could probably say I've been doing businesses (or at least researching about them) all my life. It started in kinder garden with silk worms, $1 each, 2nd grade handmade hair pins, 3rd grade a small bank where my parents would "deposit" pennies, a monthly newspaper that covered 4th grader things like school crushes, then I got more fancy with holiday presents like brownies and cookies all nicely packed and everything.

Sharing some home-made brownies in Kinder garden.

My mom was always very supportive, and I thank her for taking me to buy ingredients, bulk colorful necklace beads, and waking up with me at 5 am to pack cookies in nice little bags to sell that morning in school.

My dad, even though he never woke up at 5, he always listened to my ideas and inspired me in a way that felt like I could do anything I wanted.

Now I'm grown up and it's time to start new adventures. But this time, with a bigger market than 5th graders. So through this blog I'll share with you my story, of the start-up of a small artisan pasta business, everything from ups and downs, and maybe you can one day become part of my adventure too.

Karla



3.12.08

"Stop!!!.... Hammer Time!"

If I could have set up my alarm to be customized with a special tune for the past weeks, it would have been Mc Hammer's "Hammer Time". Let me explain. Even though the etymological meaning of "breakfast" comes from "breaking" the involuntarily "fasting" done while sleeping with eating , for me during the past few weeks "breakfast" was more closely related in meaning to a "fast-break" before I had to rush to the pasta room to keep up with the "hammer time".

But, "hammer time" is over. No more wallbreaking, painting or cementing. Now is time for equipment purchases and the next step of the pastificio making.