Ex-Accountant on Children's Entertainment Franchise

BounceU: Children's entertainment franchiseFrom Hartford Business Journal: In 2007, Brenda Simonelli was working 12-hour days as a senior corporate accountant with a Springfield, Mass. company.

The commute from her East Hartford home gobbled up another few hours.

Then one day, like a light-switch getting turned on, she was struck with an unshakeable desire to start her own business.

Simonelli followed her entrepreneurial spirit, quit her job and started a two-year journey that led to her purchase of a BounceU children's entertainment franchise that she opened in Rocky Hill last month.

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Children Franchise Owner Secure in Franchising

From Tampa Bay Online: In the weeks leading up to the opening of her new BounceU franchise, Kim Heinz spent several sleepless nights.

"I left a job I had for 20 years to do this," Heinz said.

As an account manager at an information technology company, Heinz had a boss and her own private office in a comfortable corporate-beige building.

But the slumping economy meant less business for the firm. Heinz and her husband increasingly worried about job security.

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