In 2013 I was in Xiamen to study Mandarin Chinese, and (in a moment of madness?) agreed to invest in a gym business called New Fitness. It was moving to a new location in the city and so everything was going to be put together from scratch.
It’s a long story I won’t go into here, but unfortunately we didn’t do well and the business closed a year later. The experience was memorable and an awful lot of lessons were learned, hopefully ones I can carry into any future ventures.
Probably the most serious problem, as you might be able to tell from the pictures, was the place was just too big! Rent wasn’t cheap in prime Xiamen and in hindsight we should have taken a smaller place.
