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5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting A Business From Scratch

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But with the hardships, pitfalls, upswings and victories that come with starting your business, it’s usually never either-or. All entrepreneurs have lessons to share on starting a business. That being said, there are still many contradictions on the do’s and don’ts of starting your own business.

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18 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting a Business from Scratch

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From keeping your mental game strong to getting a mentor to help make decisions, here are 18 responses to the question “What is one thing you wish someone told you about starting a business from scratch?”

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Entrepreneurial Spirit Drives a Mission to Connect People With Popongo

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As a Jamaican native, I dreamed of going to America to do something meaningful with my life. So, I traveled to West Yorkshire, England, to acquire an education then went back to Jamaica to start my professional career. I was honored to come to America to pursue my business goals and kick-start a successful career.

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Should You Consider Replacing Yourself as CEO?

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My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. I have talked about this publicly a great deal – how I prefer “missionaries” over “mercenaries.”

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

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10:00 – Moving from Yelp to Patreon. 14:10 – Switching from individual contributor to manager. 18:15 – Learnings from managing that he applies to himself. 10:00 – Moving from Yelp to Patreon. 14:10 – Switching from individual contributor to manager. He’s now a YouTuber. Google Play.

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The Hard Thing About a Hard City: Why I Support Kathryn Garcia for Mayor of NYC

This is going to be BIG.

No, I mean, she actually wants to do the job. It’s not an interesting career change for someone who made it rich doing something else. I don’t agree with her on every policy. Do I think we’d be better off with a radical transformation of policing in America? That’s the thing about someone who is a government systems wonk.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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This is a story of one person who had the power to change my life – and did so. I know his life touched many of us that worked with him – in ways he never knew. I’m not a saint who wakes up every day trying to make the lives of other people better. I’m not Pollyanna-ish and always altruistic.