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Common sense, luck help former students starting businesses
Good advice and a lot of hard work pay off for owners
By Per Joergensen Kansan correspondent
Gregory Keenan started Papa Keno's Pizzeria, 1035 Massachusetts St., with less than $10,000 and a dough mixer that was salvaged out of a walnut tree.
He said bankers laughed at his first business plan.
As Keenan found out, starting a business begins with a good idea,a little luck and a lot of hard work.
Keenan, a former KU student, tried his idea the hard way. He thought the ramshackle little restaurant he opened in June 1991 would only last through the summer.
People liked Keenan's pizza, and as business picked up, so did the paperwork.
"I wasn't very well versed in management, paying taxes, and so forth," he said. "I worked from open until close."
He worked through the problems as they appeared.
"It succeeded by virtue of me being stupid," Keenan said. "I wasn't concerned with heating or air-conditioning. I thought all I needed was an oven, a mixer, and a cooler."
Most of the original equipment came from a Wichita restaurant that was torn apart by a tornado. The owner told Keenan to keep whatever he could salvage, which included a cooler and the 500-pound dough mixer.
Keenan said he always wanted to open his own business. He landed in the restaurant business after friends complimented him on his homemade pizza.
Today, Papa Keno's employs 60 people and is expanding to Overland Park.
Wendy Jordan DeHoff started her own collection agency using inheritance money and learned how to incorporate from a book.
"I thought it would be really complicated, but it wasn't," she said.
The opportunities are there for young entrepreneur, and success may not always come easy. For those who want to
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