timtruth

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If you were in your early twenties… in c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space
[–] timtruth@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Do the deep work to determine your motivations for wanting to start a business. Are they based on trauma or true love? This is very hard to distinguish when you're young.

But if you let trauma drive, and you do the work to heal, you'll start burning out even if you're successful.

How many of you guys are "kinda successful"? in c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space
[–] timtruth@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah there is a bit of that benefit for sure

What is your net profit per month right now? in c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space
[–] timtruth@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you manage all of this? Do you have people in place with each business where it's basically all passive?

It's one thing so see someone with a dozen business where they are all scaled, they likely purchased them etc but this sounds really impressive to me, feels like you are somewhat bootstrapped just based on business size but all are still legit businesses..

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How many of you guys are "kinda successful"? (alien.top)
 

See a lot of home run threads and getting started/new idea threads, but I'm wondering how many entrepreneurs have "sort of" made it here?

I've been building a small business marketing agency for around a decade. We'll prob do around 600k this year but no real profit (long story, working on it). I get paid 6-7k as a salary kind of like a normal job I guess.

Started doing some additional consulting work last year to make more money while we restructure the agency business model and now make about 6-7k/mo there as well.

I'm healthy, good marriage, generally doing well. But work is a lot, battling burnout, have a few regrets, etc. Not perfect but not terrible either.

Anyone else feel like their business aspirations have led to a life that kind of plays out more like you have a normal job give or take, vs the big fail / multimillion dollar exit dichotomy that is usually presented?