TOILET PAPER PROFILES – Jun Loayza of Future Delivery

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TOILET PAPER ENTREPRENEUR PROFILES

Jun Loayza, Founder of Future Delivery

Jun Loayza

The Company
Future Delivery 

Launched
July 7, 2007

Founders
Yu-kai Chou (CEO), Jun Loayza (CMO), Jason Wei (CTO)

The Service
Fun and easy career development for students and young professionals.  Our products are FD Career and FD World.

Startup cash used
$5000 from our own savings. 

College
UCLA grads and fraternity brothers of Delta Sigma Pi. (Mike’s Deep Thoughts – I am a DSP too!  If my recollection serves me well, founding brother Harry Hartel was from California)

Favorite Food
Authentic Japanese sushi. 

Favorite Quote
“It’s not how hard you push along the way; it’s if you have it in you to finish.”  – Michael Jordan

Hardest Laugh
Hardest time I’ve ever laughed that was toilet paper related:  My high school basketball team and I was playing in the Championship Basketball game for our district.  During half time, I really needed to use the bathroom for a number two.  It’s close to the gym, so I heard the whistle blow that the second half was just about to start.  In my haste, I ran out of the bathroom and head to the coach who puts me in the line-up.  As I’m standing on the court, knees bent in defensive position against the in bounder, everyone stops playing and stares and points at me.  Even the referee blew the whistle to pause the game!  What had happened?  Because I rushed out of the bathroom, I had a string of toilet paper attached to the bottom of my shoe!  I couldn’t help but crack up as well.  Coach sat my butt down on the bench and said, “Next time, wipe faster.”

Favorite TP
It’s got to be Charmin. 

TP Supply – Over or Under?
Over for sure. 

Favorite Book
Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi.  Ironically, I most often read the book while eating my lunch alone. 

Great Night Out
Tokyo Table dinner: $80
Wicked the Musical: $175
In-n-Out Animal Style Fries: $5
Celebrating my one year with my girlfriend: Priceless

Wake Up

Alarm goes off at 7:30am.  Hit the snooze button and then finally get out of bed at 8am.

Sleep Time 
Sleep is for the weak. (I get weak at 2am every night)

Extreme Work
Stayed up with the team for 48 hours straight in order to launch FD Career on time. 

Biggest Biz Mistake
My biggest entrepreneurial mistake was with The Veridical Group – a small business consulting firm I founded as an undergrad.  The team was full of part-time people, even I was only doing it part-time.  The company ultimately went no where because it did not have the human resources necessary in order for a startup to take off.  The lesson I learned: in order for your startup to succeed, you need a team that is fully committed and full-time on the company.  

The Passion
My team and I do not like the word “passion.”  We feel it is overused and has lost all meaning.  However, I do feel I am living “passionately.”  When I was at my corporate job, I felt I was living comfortably.  I had early morning bagels, casual Fridays, and a great and stable pay.  But I just didn’t feel like I was being utilized to my full potential.  Now as an entrepreneur, I do feel that I absolutely love what I am doing and love the people who I am doing it with.  I have learned more in my 1 year as an entrepreneur than all of the years at UCLA or at my corporate job combined. 

The Lesson
Start a company as an undergraduate.  The amount of resources available to you as an undergrad is amazing: professors, peers, student organizations, counselors, the career center, and the MBA School.  Most importantly, school is like a safety net.  If you fail in your startup, there’s no problem at all.  You’re still going to class and now you have some amazing experience on your resume.  Don’t wait until after you graduate to start your company.  Do it as an undergrad!

Contact information
Company: http://FDcareer.com
Personal: http://JunLoayza.com
Video Documentary: http://YouTube.com/JunLoayza
Email: Jun.Loayza@FDcareer.com 

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  • Mike Michalowicz

    Sushi, sushi… I LOVE SUSHI!

    - Mike

  • http://www.chicgemsetc.com Sarah Radford

    Great story. Love the picture!
    Rock on, TPE’s rule!
    Sarah

  • http://www.NetworkingEffectively.com Scott Bradley

    Awesome picture! WOW!

  • http://www.teenentrepreneurblog.com Shonika Proctor, Teen Biz Coach

    Start a company as an undergrad??? I say start one as a teenager if not younger, lol ;-)

    Totally agree with you with the use of the word passion and how it is used too much. I have a similar story. I worked for a privately owned small business for nearly a dozen years and it was a lot of fun and paid well and I had flexible hours and all the rest of it. However, I wasn’t really challenged by the work so after a couple of years there I never felt like I was growing. So even though I was quite good at that job…it was not ‘good for me’ because I could never quite get any fulfillment from it.

    I won’t necessarily say that I found entrepreneurship as much as it found me. My first ‘real’ company again was much like my job. I was good at it and having success with it but it was not good for me and doing pretty ok after 3 years. So I wasn’t sure if entrepreneurship was my path until I discovered the industry I am working in now- “Youth & Teen Entrepreneur Coaching” which is a niche I made up btw ;-)

    It has brought me a different kind of drive and vision and each day I am bringing mini reaffirmations that I am on the right track. I LOVE IT!

    Wishing you continued good fortune with your business.

    p.s. that is a great photo.

    cheers.

    http://www.teenentrepreneurblog.com

  • Mike Michalowicz

    I’m with Shonika, start the moment you feel the urge. Start as a teen (or sooner).

    - Mike

  • http://JunLoayza.com Jun Loayza

    Thanks everyone for your comments! Glad you guys liked the picture

    @Shonika – Very interesting niche you got there. The most common question that I get asked about entrepreneurship by my friends who are still undergraduates is “Where do I start?” I feel that it just starts with your mentality and decision that today my company starts.

    I’m totally with you about leaving your “corporate” job. I worked at a consulting firm for three months before I stepped aside to start Future Delivery full-time.

    Good luck everyone with starting your company! Please do reach out if you would like to chat about entrepreneurship

    - Jun

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  • http://www.teenentrepreneurblog.com Shonika Proctor, Teen Biz Coach

    @Jun, “The most common question that I get asked about entrepreneurship by my friends who are still undergraduates is “Where do I start?”

    This is also a common question I get. People put too much thought into it. Starting a business is almost as simple as ordering some business cards and running a yellow pages ad and making some cold calls :) If you don’t have product you can drop ship, if you provide a service you can start offering the service right away. If you want to start a store or restaurant etc. you can go to your local Small Business Development Center (in U.S) and get free counseling and small business start up support. Just do something, you cannot overconceptualize esp if you have never run a business before otherwise it becomes overwhelming and you never do. Just start small and from the point where you are now bc there is no other place to start from and go and grow from there. Whenever you get to the next place or next challenge everything and everybody will be there waiting for you and helping you to keep moving forward. It’s so simple, that it’s complex eh? :)

    http://www.teenentrepreneurblog.com