The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future



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The 100 Startup Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau (z-lib.org).epub

Option 3: Split the Difference
Sometimes the choice between small and big has more than two answers. A
creative  individual  can  learn  her  lessons  about  the  wrong  kind  of  growth
and then apply them to the right kind. Meet Jessica Reagan Salzman, owner
of  a  one-person  bookkeeping  shop  in  Attleboro,  Massachusetts.  I  knew
Jessica was a numbers person when she provided estimated income for the
next  year  of  exactly  $110,899.  Many  entrepreneurs  are  lost  in  the  bigger
picture  and  aren’t  certain  about  their  finances.  They  tended  to  answer  my
questions  about  income  projections  with  statements  like  “Uh,  about  one
hundred,  maybe  one-fifty  or  so.”  With  Jessica,  there  was  no  need  for
follow-up.
Ironically, Jessica started the business after an unsettling experience at a
new job she had just taken for a CPA. As she was settling into the job, she
kept  tallying  figures  and  wondering  why  something  wasn’t  balancing
properly.  She  finally  figured  it  out:  Not  only  was  the  firm  in  trouble,  it
wouldn’t  have  enough  to  pay  her  when  the  very  first  bookkeeping  cycle
came around. Oops. Jessica quit and decided to go it alone.
Right  from  the  beginning,  the  business  was  profitable  at  a  decent  part-
time  level,  and  Jessica  was  focused  on  raising  a  family  without  worrying
about  making  a  ton  of  money.  But  one  day,  her  husband,  Michael,  called
and said he was coming home early. “That’s nice,” she said. “Any special
occasion?” There was a pause before he told her the rest of the news: He
had been laid off, effective immediately.
Jessica’s  business  had  been  successful  as  a  side  project,  but  it  didn’t
make nearly enough money to support a family, with their second child just
three  weeks  old  at  that  point.  After  the  shock  wore  off,  they  talked  about
options,  and  Jessica  decided  to  take  the  business  to  a  higher  level.  Her
husband became the primary caregiver at home, and Jessica went to work.
The business quickly grew and all was well under the new arrangement, but


then  it  started  growing  too  fast.  “We  had  made  major  progress  in  the
direction  of  growing  revenues,”  she  said,  “but  we  had  also  experienced
soaring costs, and our bottom line clearly reflected the necessity for a major
change.
“I just assumed that’s what you were supposed to do,” she continued. “As
the  business  improves,  you  hire  people.  Right?”  Unfortunately,  although
hiring people can sometimes help a business grow, it always creates much
higher  costs  and  fixed  obligations.  Jessica  made  more  changes,  switching
her business to a sole proprietorship and returning to a one-woman shop.
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