In 1997 I opened my ISP (Internet Service Provider) business. In these pictures you can see at the grand opening I had the Mayor of Oshawa there Mayor Nancy Diamond. It was an exciting time. I remember that time well. I made so many mistakes, which lead to learning a lot of things. What I never anticipated was the anxiety attacks I started to have on occasions when things got really stressful. I hated been cooped up in store. It was certainly a contributing factor to my decision to end up selling off the business to another ISP.
It was a dialup service just when broadband was beginning to come into the market as well, and I didn’t see any clear path of growth and advancement that was possible for me with what I had. Before the sell off I made some REALLY BONE HEAD moves that I thought at the time were going to make my service better. My gosh, it was so amateur its ridiculous. I can’t even bring myself to tell people about it. 
I remember after that decision to sell and stop everything related to that business, I had a period where I was dazed. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do, or what was next. I had just gone through a lot of stress and difficulties, and to a certain degree, failure. Two weeks later, I had a new idea!! I was so excited about it I knew that was what I was going to do next! haha … Jonathan Tranter never gives up, never surrenders!
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