In this section, you need to understand how hard it is to get started and the reality of what life might be like.
When you write a book after you have built your business, it is easy to give the impression that it is easy to be an entrepreneur. It isn’t. When I first started out, I had very few customers and was making little money. I certainly wasn’t earning enough to pay my way in life.
Therefore, of all the advice I have given you about getting started, this is my most important: have a backup plan.
My story of working while building my business started when I was 15. I am a young entrepreneur, remember, and my IT support business was started when I was still at school. Therefore, there are some realities I didn’t ...
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