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The next few years were
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lean and chaotic. Nick recounts a stream of mishaps that exposed their inexperience, like making products copied from the internet. "We'd breached all of this IP [intellectual
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property]. We didn't know what IP was, or patents." Products had to be pulled in favour
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of new ones and fresh ideas. Nick would sit on the phone all night, ringing retailers all over the world, searching for clients. The Walmart bite helped, and
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he quickly got a "tiny" showroom up and running in Hong Kong. All he could afford, it was a far cry from typical toy showrooms - large, open spaces he later discovered were central to the industry. That room also became his part-time home as he lived between Hong Kong and mainland China. "I used to unroll a mattress and sleep under the table," says Nick. "I'd wash at public bathrooms."
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