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Chapters from Starting & Sustaining

  • Plan for a paycut

    When you’re getting started, your personal costs will be your single biggest expense. By reducing your cost of living, you can buy yourself time and reduce your stress while your business gets going.

  • Don't quit your day job

    If reducing your costs is the best way to set up your business, not quitting your day job is the next best. There will come a time when you need to quit, but it will be long after juggling the two is easy.

  • Be cautious with projections

    At some point, you’re going to put together a spreadsheet that illustrates your business plan making a million dollars in some random period of time. Remember that these aren’t real numbers, and then get to work.

  • Be cautious with transparency

    More and more businesses operate with some degree of transparency. But how do you know if it makes sense to run your business transparently? Make sure you weigh the pros and cons before deciding one way or the other.

  • Projections

    How conservative should your projections be? What kind of growth should you expect?

  • Operations

    How can you optimize for rapid iteration? How does monitoring fit into your day-to-day tasks?

  • Business

    How should you work with customers? How should you communicate when things go wrong? What should you outsource?

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