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j.j. ramberg and welcome to "your business." we all make mistakes. ask any successful entrepreneur, and they won't have enough fingers and toes to count all the bad calls they make. but what you do with those mistakes makes all the difference. we met two entrepreneurs who started a company selling shaving products, who, instead of beating themselves up over all their wrong decisions used them as teaching moments. and while their bottom line took some hits along the way, it was all part of the learning process. >> we've been told more than once that if we knew what we were getting into, we probably never would have even tried. >> we made that conscious decision that we were going to enter this market space for better or worse. >> men's skin care line j. paul may have entered a crowded field when it launched its shaving accessories in 2007 but for founders paul looney and paul strong, that was no deterrent. >> our products really are targeted for those guys that do have thick beards. like myself. and my business partner paul strong has very sensitive s

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j.j. ramberg and welcome to "your business."you've been to the vegas strip you will absolutely recognize the company we're profiling today. you might not know its name but know its work, the company that built that amazing fountain in front of the bellagio and that's only one of the many incredible water sculptures they've designed so wanted to see who is behind this art and how do they keep their blowing coming up with the ideas? it's all about training, culture and versatility, it turns out. ♪ the bellagio or the dubai fountain an ocean away and can you not help but stop and stare. this is the work of a disney imagi imagineer turned fountain designer after he worked on epcot water installations in 1987 mark fuller and two colleagues took that experience, left their corporate job answer started the southern california based water feature design firm wet. their first fountain was for'place in dallas, texas and the company hasn't had a quiet day since then. >> the phones started ringing. people saying, who did that and we're buil

j.j. ramberg and welcome to "your business." maker spaces. they come in all shapes and sizes but they all have one thing in common. accessibility to tools, to education, and collaboration where inventors, hobbyists and hackers can all come together oobtd experiment, and make things, all under one roof. for entrepreneurs, a maker space can level the playing field. so that they can now make prototypes just like bigger companies do, but at a price point similar to a monthly gym membership. we recently spent the day at makerhaus in seattle, where we met a bunch of entrepreneurs using the space to make everything from portable hydroponic gardens to extension cords, custom bikes and guitars. >> never before in history has it been easier to create a scale of business as it is today. whether you're coding or whether you're looking on making a physical product, you can start something and scale at a pace that's never been seen before. >> you know that product idea you scribbled on a piece of paper and then threw in a junk drawer because you didn't kno