How did you get started in business?

Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, is soon to open the Trump Soho Hotel in New York. She also has a book titled “The Trump Card.” In the book she notes that most young people must endure “the growing pains and lowly paper-pushing assignments that come with earning your stripes.” Ivanka then asks herself, “Did I have an edge getting started in business? No question. Get over it.”

How did you get started in business? Who influenced you? Please feel free to write about who guided or mentored you here. You can then send that person the link to what you have written!