The first year of my startup was, without a doubt, the most educational period of my life. There is so much you can’t possibly know about running a business until you’re actually doing it. The mistakes, trials, and successes of that first year left me with a plethora of lessons.
As someone who started a company on my own, I was solely responsible for everything. That meant I had to manage administrative elements, marketing plans, sales, accounts payable, receivables, payroll, business models, you name it. Each and every aspect of my business depended on me like a small child
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