The age-old conundrum of running a business; time versus money.

Is your business so new that you don’t have enough clients  to occupy all of your time and so no money to get them quickly?  if so, you are not the first or the last to be in such a situation.

Do you have so little money you are not capable of implementing change and enough time to endure for sloppy processes?  This is a hard habit to change later, implement what you can ASAP.

Or do you have no time whatsoever and are looking for people to delegate responsibilities to? This is almost as bad as the previous comment.

Business will go back and forth through this conundrum cycle, over and over again, or until it gets big enough to have credit to offset the cash crunch.

I was just reading a book about an animation company that in the 1960’s through the 1980’s; their business started from the beginning was either had feast of famine cycle. Their employee levels bouncing up and down within each year.  Always struggling to exist, until they sold out and then were sold a couple more times.  Having a parent helped with the cash crunch, but not with the work or the employee situation.

For that company the work itself was always feast of famine.  It is comforting to see other industries going through this historically.  It is somewhat comforting that the more things change the more they stay the same.

You are not alone.

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