As we grow the team, we need new phone numbers and cell phones for each person In this process, we discovered a 50% cheaper carrier. We thought “this is awesome! With scale will be saving 100s per month” We switched providers immediately. Website setup was easy to do, and so we thought things would
Read more: How 10€ / month cost us 5k in 4 days
A couple of months after we started, one of the top car dealerships wanted us to paint their new facilities Huge project, with thousands of square meters, state of the art facilities. Our estimate would be, at least, 200k€ just in painting costs We had meetings with them, spoke to our suppliers abou
Read more: Why we turned down a 200k€ deal
The most important asset of a founder is not grit. It’s their support team. I used to run on 12 to 14 hour workdays, only focusing on my work. I stopped eating healthy. Stopped doing sports But most of all, stopped looking for great connections! I trusted my grit would be enough to get me …
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When I started my first company, I knew some coding from having learnt C in college. I had very little understanding of JavaScript or PHP, but I knew the basics of coding. It was easy for me to understand the logic. But the specific tweaks of the language? That was harsh. I had never started [&helli
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A year ago, we were drowning. Every sale depended on us. Every job, every call, every payment – all manual! So we did the unthinkable: we stopped chasing every lead.And somehow… profit went up. Here’s the backstory 👇 A year ago we were stuck managing every painting job manually. We picked up the ph
Read more: We stopped selling and made more profit than ever
I Was Proud of Being the 12-Hour-a-Day Founder… Until I Realized What It Cost Me. “I work 12h a day” “I run all of my operations and don’t need anyone else” “I do this better than anyone else could” All of these things sound extremely noble. And they keep you trapped You wanna let go …
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