Angie and Dan Bastian made $300 on their first day of sales
Angie Bastian · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · Feb 21, 2022 · at 20:48
Angie Bastian, co-founder of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP, discusses the first day selling kettle corn outside a Minnesota supermarket before Thanksgiving in 2001.
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“It, that, so that's November 21st, 2001. This was my first winter in Minnesota, so I decided the date that we were going to do it, and Dan was like, well, ok, November 21st. Let's see what happens. And fortunately, it was a beautiful fall day, and it took us an hour to set up, and we sold 300 dollars.”
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