The Skills That Actually Transfer From Employee to Entrepreneur (and the Ones That Don’t)
I was a genuinely excellent employee before I started my business. Reliable, high-performing, promoted twice in four years. None of that prepared me...
I was a genuinely excellent employee before I started my business. Reliable, high-performing, promoted twice in four years. None of that prepared me...
A founder I know told me her business “did $340,000 last year” with real pride in her voice, and when I asked what she’d actually...
A founder I know classified a worker as a contractor for over a year because it was simpler administratively, no payroll taxes, no benefits...
Someone once told me to “just leap, the net will appear.” I’ve watched that advice ruin more than one otherwise capable...
A prospective client offered me a contract worth more than 20% of my annual revenue at the time, and I said no. Every instinct in me screamed that...
My business’s entire client relationship management, every history, every note, every ongoing negotiation detail, lived in exactly one place:...
I looked at my warehouse one afternoon and realized, with genuine discomfort, that roughly $34,000 of my total cash position was sitting on shelves...
A founder friend spent six weeks perfecting her pitch deck before her first real investor meeting, agonizing over slide transitions and the exact...
I turned down a genuinely large contract, one that would have required bringing on help to deliver, three separate times over about a year, each time...
A 1,400 word blog post took me about four hours to write, research included. Turning that same post into six additional pieces of content took forty...
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