The business starts to get some momentum. Money is starting to come in. I'm still doing everything myself.
It can be tempting once the business starts to support itself, to start operating in the confines of whatever cash is coming in. As against continuing to invest, scaling with help etc.
I recently found myself in this position, and for a month or so my head went to 'this is my job' rather than 'this is my business'.
I dont want to build a job. Ive done that before. I want to build a business that can steadily scale. The only way to do that in my business is systemise all the repeatable tasks and develop training material for every single job i do. Its tedious, time-consuming but critical if I want others to do the work and leave me to do what i do best..sell products. Hoping someone better than me can eventually do that as well.
Cost of hiring has to be seen as investment in the first 24-36 months imo. Its hard to not just start scraping off the top, buying a Tesla or whatever entrepreneurs do.
Im trying to learn from past mistakes. Keep the foot on the accelerator. Invest profit into growth.
And personally i plan on buying one of those nice boats you can sleep on. đ one day
The difficult transition. Moving from creating a job to a business.
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Posted by sendsouth
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This is the exact mindset shift most people miss… staying stuck in âjob thinkingâ caps growth fast. Systemising early hurts but pays off massively later. And yeah, reinvesting profits instead of lifestyle upgrades is usually what separates steady businesses from real scalable ones.
The hardest part is usually trusting someone else to do work you know how to do yourself.
been there, done that. transitioning from ‘job’ to ‘business’ is a wake-up call. gotta systemize, train, and invest in growth, not just treat it as a cash cow. hard choices but gotta play the long game.
Tu as raison, c’est difficile, mais d’après moi si tu restes focus sur le long terme, dans le futur tu te remercieras d’avoir choisi la croissance plutĂ´t que la facilitĂŠ.
this is the point where a lot of founders accidentally build themselves a better-paying job instead of a business. the tricky part is that systemizing feels slower at first because you are taking time away from the work that currently brings in cash. but if every delivery, customer issue, quote, hire, and training decision still has to pass through your head, the business cannot really scale. i would start by documenting the 20% of repeat tasks that create 80% of the bottleneck, then hire or delegate against those first instead of trying to replace yourself everywhere at once. profit reinvestment is painful, but so is being the permanent engine of the whole company.