[ELARA'S POV]
Brandon was right about the referrals.
By Monday morning my inbox had exploded. Seventeen new inquiries. Half of them from Fortune 500 companies. The other half from startups with too much money and not enough sense.
I hired two more people that week. Then three more the week after. The tiny Chelsea office became impossible. We moved to a real space in the Flatiron. Exposed brick. High ceilings. Windows that actually opened. Six desks. A conference room. A kitchen with a coffee maker that cost more than my first month's rent.
Kane & Associates had a real office.
The tech blogs ran features. "The Event Planner Making Corporate Launches Cool Again." TechCrunch did a profile. Vogue Business called me a "rising star in luxury experience design."
It was dizzying. Three months ago I'd been planning Isla's first birthday party and feeling like I was disappearing. Now I had a staff of eight and a waiting list of clients.
