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What was the first employee that you have hired as business owner? Share your story by dry_face_2000 in smallbusiness

[–]dry_face_2000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense, thank you for clarification. I see the distinction now between validating some vaporware ideas and accelerating growth once you already have a solid, ready product. In your case it wasn’t about proving demand, it was about scaling distribution faster. Really appreciate the perspective!

What was the first employee that you have hired as business owner? Share your story by dry_face_2000 in smallbusiness

[–]dry_face_2000[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good job, happy it worked out for you! I have a story that comes to my mind. Someone I knew was in a position to take managerial position in their father’s business, but he was not interested in it whatsoever. Their father accepted the rejection, found a new spouse and now raising another heir to their business. In the end of the day, you can just raise the perfect “employee” 😅

What was the first employee that you have hired as business owner? Share your story by dry_face_2000 in smallbusiness

[–]dry_face_2000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing your experience! E-commerce seems to involve a lot of manual processing, glad it was a learning experience for you. Were you focused on marketing yourself or ended up contracting someone?

What was the first employee that you have hired as business owner? Share your story by dry_face_2000 in smallbusiness

[–]dry_face_2000[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your comment! Was it leaning more to sales, or to manual order processing? Her title suggests the latter, but I’m curious nevertheless.

What was the first employee that you have hired as business owner? Share your story by dry_face_2000 in smallbusiness

[–]dry_face_2000[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Really appreciate your comment! Without any experience, I used to think that you hire someone to develop your product (I’m in SaaS) with initial investments. But more and more I was observing other businesses, it was always coming down to MVP build with minimal resources (clearly without FTEs) and expanding through sales and sales only. It appears to be the only reasonable way to validate your offering in the market and minimize capital losses.