Profile of Success: Booting It Up

This month, Terry Powers, founder/president of the ComputerGear catalog, recalls how a simple dare led to her career in the catalog business.

Catalog Success: How did you get started in the business?

Terry Powers: At the time ComputerGear was founded, in 1993, computers were starting to come into the workforce, and they weren’t very friendly. They were ugly, too. Our company was basically started on a dare. Someone said, “Why don’t you make computers more friendly?” I saw there weren’t really any products out there to decorate your desk or make it more fun, so I pretty much took someone up on a dare and did it.