Why These Garment Industry Vets Left Their Business to Become Early-Education Franchisees
For more freedom and proximity to family, Raj and Veenu Prakash bought a Lightbridge Academy franchise -- and have since become an integral part of their New Jersey Community.
by Stephanie Schomer
Nov 01, 2018
2 minutes
Raj and Veenu Parkash are seasoned business owners. After they married, in the ’90s, they owned and operated a garment business in Manhattan while raising their young in the New Jersey suburbs. But after eight years of that, they wanted a way to work closer to their kids -- which is why they became of an East Coast–based early childhood education. Despite their past experience, felt like starting from square one. The two longtime entrepreneurs tell us how they hit reset on their careers, learned the ins and outs of an unfamiliar industry and earned the hard-won trust of their community’s parents.
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