What sparks a person to start a business? The notion is triggered in many ways — admiring a self-employed person and wanting to emulate it, perhaps, or finding yourself with a truckload of widgets and realizing there’s a market for them.
For Joe Fuentes, the desire to have his own plumbing company arose during a class several years into his plumbing apprenticeship. A business agent addressed a roomful of apprentice plumbers that evening and in the course of remarks said, “Some of you guys in this room will become contractors.”“Becoming a plumbing contractor had never crossed my mind,” Fuentes says. “When
