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#9: How to Start a Thriving Business Without Quitting Your Day Job

Author
Jake Sperley, Kyle Tolzman
Published
Tue 23 Jun 2020
Episode Link
https://againstallaverage.com/episodes/9-how-to-start-a-thriving-business-without-quitting-your-day-job-Q560RgpE

Episode Notes

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*Time Stamped Show Notes: *

[1:30] Jake gets made fun of by Kyle

[3:48] Sponsor plug www.faemproservices.com

[4:40] Should you quit your day job when you become an engineer? 

  • Start your business two years prior to when you went to quit your day job
  • It’s a lot easier to put money back into your business if you have a day job

[8:15] It takes time to start a sturdy well built company

  • Takes time to build your network
  • Takes time to nurture your network
  • Everyone's situation is different

[13:00] Perfection slows you down

  • You don’t need a perfect logo to start
  • You don’t need a perfect website to start
  • Keep moving forward

[14:40] Hire out different skills that you are not good at. 

  • You will never move fast enough if you try to do everything yourself
  • Wasting time and it still will not be professional
  • You have to spend money to make money

[21:20] Don’t mow your own lawn

  • Move things off your calendar that are not revenue producing
  • Work/life balance

[25:00] Stay in your strengths as much as possible

  • Leave design to designers
  • Leave sales to salespeople

[29:50] Entrepreneurs think they need to be great at everything.

  • Just move forward
  • Hire out accounting and bookkeeping
  • Hire out graphic design
  • Look at your books don’t fill them out

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