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7 Lessons He Learned the Hard Way
Every remodeling business owner has learned painful lessons, and in his 29 years of running Winans Construction, a design/build firm in Berkeley, Calif., Paul Winans learned more than his share. For many of the early years (he and his wife Nina incorporated in 1978), he was a stubborn and hot-headed business novice who threw himself into his work and the impossible goal of pleasing every client and prospect.