The next few years were lean and chaotic. Nick recounts a stream of mishaps that exposed their inexperience, like making products
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copied from the internet.
"We'd breached all of
종로포장이사 this IP [intellectual property]. We didn't know what IP was, or patents."
Products had to be pulled in
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favour of new ones and fresh ideas. Nick would sit on the phone all night, ringing retailers all over the world, searching for clients.
The Walmart bite helped, and he quickly got a "tiny" showroom
역촌동용달이사 up and running in Hong Kong. All he could afford, it was a far cry from typical toy showrooms - large, open spaces he later discovered were central to the industry. That room also became his part-time home as he lived between Hong Kong and mainland China.
"I used to unroll a mattress and sleep under the table," says Nick. "I'd wash at public bathrooms."