
Stepping Into Your Shiny New Entrepreneur's Shoes

What to Expect

Challenges to Overcome

Keeping control of day-to-day stuff is pretty easy these days with online invoicing systems like Freshbooks or Xero, however get someone with accountancy knowledge to sort the VAT/PAYE/Corporation Tax requirements. It'll save you a fortune and many sleepless nights! Also, get someone else to 'chase' invoices. Unless you're selling yourself as a one-man-design-studio, being the 'accounts' and the 'design' department doesn't add much confidence. 2. Either 'do the work' or 'find the work' - Both doesn't fly!
If you're constantly on the road / email / twitter etc looking/quoting for work, then you need someone back at the office actually fulfilling the requirements - you can't do both and it's a quick fire way to get deadlines missed, unhappy clients or a lot of sleepless nights! Equally, if your forte is coding/design, then do that and employ someone on a 'commission only' basis to go out there and sell you and your skills! Once the business gets bigger, you'll need to segregate parts of the business so that you don't end up wearing too many hats. Keep Finance, Sales, Design and Technology all separate (with a common goal)."
Future Career Moves

John O’Nolan
Founder at Ghost.org. Writes about Open source, startup life, non-profits & publishing platforms. Travels the world with a bag of kites.
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