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2014 - 8 years ago! Today was my anniversary of starting the Entrepreneurship road full-time. Although I had my first business at 12 years old (printing bike stickers), so I could buy gear for my bike. From then, I had many ideas and tried to build businesses, but 2014 was the year when I decided to do it full-time. Yes, best decision ever!

I got my first stunning results after 4+ years:

1\uFE0F\u20E3 Built Tech Accelerator Aurity.co \u22137 digits dev shop

2\uFE0F\u20E3 Bought 2nd\uD83C\uDFE1 in London

3\uFE0F\u20E3 Reinvesting $500k into \uD83C\uDF4D Website Builder to empower small businesses \uD83D\uDE80

Overnight success? Not much \uD83D\uDE03

Learnings \uD83D\uDC47\uD83C\uDFFB

1\uFE0F\u20E3 Everything takes 2-5x more time

- Make sure you are prepared for that and have enough runway (a good runway is 2-3 years)

- Prepare your plan A, B and C, for your mental health so you are not overstressed when things go sideways

- Iterate fast, make mistakes, learn and repeat

2\uFE0F\u20E3 Be humble

- At the being, it might look easy. That you know everything. But you don't. It takes time to take on perspective.

- I will repeat it \uD83D\uDC49\uD83C\uDFFB no you don't understand it! Yet.

3\uFE0F\u20E3 Overdeliver to learn

- Best paying options might give you less experience and exposure. Put your hard work first and overdeliver to learn.

- Take interesting projects where you can learn, collaborate with others and partner up.

- You learn way faster with others and by teaching/ sharing your knowledge as it revalidates and makes you understand it better.

4\uFE0F\u20E3 10x everything

- If you want to build a business, you must build it 10x better than others. When you get there, finding new clients won't be a problem

- Create a process first and then automate it

- Don't build from scratch and reuse things as much as possible. Speed is everything.

5\uFE0F\u20E3 Understand your market and problems first

- Work with your clients to learn their perspective and real pain points, then build services/ automation/products around it

- Don't build custom solutions for your customers until you understand their problems. It requires 3-4 years of learning first.

6\uFE0F\u20E3 Reinvest, reinvest and repeat

- Don't spend money on useless shit. Cars, luxury things, and other things won't help you to grow and will be just a distraction

- Reinvest all the money into business, trainings, tools, and hires.

- Invest in properties, your pensions and stocks (in this order, stocks are very risky!)

7\uFE0F\u20E3 Health

- If you push it too hard, you will burn and waste time recovering from it.

- Your brain doesn't function when it's overworked and stressed. Exercise, go for a trip

- Hang out with friends and family, it will help your overall wellbeing

8\uFE0F\u20E3 Start with Why?

- I've started 14 businesses, and the first businesses your start for \"money\". It's great and can be fast to make money, but it's easy to get bored or lost drive as you won't enjoy it.

- Start with your \"Why\". Define what excites you and what you want to do or build, how you want to help and change the world. This will give you the ultimate drive to grow and build your business despite the challenges.

And more...

You need to have it all to have healthy and happy business/life. Nice MRR doesn't make you happy or healhy in the long run.

Having it all together is the end goal.

Enjoy your ride as it will be \uD83C\uDFA2 , so have fun on the way. I will share more updates and details here, so subscribe and let me know what I should write next on Twitter.

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8 Years of Full-Time Business Building: Learnings to Help Your Business Succeed

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