How NOT to run a business

This is a post from 2016 and believe me, I’ve made even more mistakes since then.

Enjoy…

I’ve had a fair few of businesses in the past and some were even successful! But I have had some clangers too 🤔

Here’s a whistle-stop overview and a couple of lessons learnt on the way.

It all started when I left Uni and wanted to have my own web design company 💻

It was 2000 and the internet was still built on hand-coded pages and there was a smidgen of CSS. I wasn’t bothered about that, I just wanted to have my own business 😎

Living up North had it’s benefits back then. Business Link wanted to give me *all* the training courses. I walked to the other side of town every week to sit with other wannabe business owners and was taught “business” 🤓

The first contract fell through and it hurt. I was crap at coding and I couldn’t solve the problem the company hired me to solve 😞

My first business failure was that I focused on building a business without having a sound product. Fucksticks 😡

I ended going back on the dole then getting a job at the Early Learning Centre… and I hated kids 😩