Fresh cut flowers normally bring joy. But Andy Forde got nothing but grief when he tried to open a floral cart in Forsyth County, Georgia, north of Atlanta.
Forde got the business idea during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I noticed everybody was angry at this or that,” he says. “I see it in many places. But flowers make people smile.”
The venture was not his first attempt at entrepreneurship. Forde previously applied for permits to run a mobile hot dog stand, but regulators told him no. Undeterred, he swapped ketchup and mustard for daisies and roses.
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