Josh Steimle runs a creative agency in Salt Lake. I know Josh only slightly having met him on a few occasions in his agency and at Fight Club.
Before I met Josh I already knew of him from his blog DON LOPER.
Josh is regularly listed among Utah’s upward bound entrepreneurs and has obviously met with some successes. But reading his list I was able to relate to almost every point. (In fact, I used it for the first post on my Nimble blog.) Josh is turning his list into a book by posting daily on each topic.
The 75 post series on What It Means To Be An Entrepreneur is about the best I’ve ever read on the headaches of bootstrapping a start up.
Here’s a few topics:
13. You’ve averaged 60-80 hours per week of work for the past five years.
14. You’re the lowest paid employee in your company.
15. You’ve had dreams about your employees’ wives yelling at you.
16. You have to begin interviews of potential employees by saying “I need you to understand that sometimes I won’t be able to pay you.”
I’m more than tempted to rip of Josh’s long list book idea and write a series for physicians running a medical spa over on my medical spas blog.
Josh has it right when he says:
Sometimes “wise” people are merely the product of circumstances beyond their control, and idiots likewise. In the end will I be wise for having put my savings into my business, or will I be an idiot? Luckily I do have a large measure of control in the situation, but only time will tell. Unless you think I’m an idiot for even taking the risk, in which case you’ve already got your answer.
Jeff Barson
