I’ve sold two businesses. As I build my next one, here’s what I’ll do from the beginning to make it easier to sell later.
This year I sold The Write Life, an online business I’d built mostly as a side project over the last eight years. This post explains why I sold it, what the process was like, and what I’m building next.
Here’s a lesson I’ve learned so many times, one that comes back to me again as I reflect on selling The Write Life: It’s always worth investing in yourself.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from selling two online businesses, it’s this: Ignore the formulas and multiples the internet tells you to use to value your business.
Just a few months after giving birth to my second child, I was invited to give an on-stage presentation. Could I do it?
What does it look like to opt out of hustle culture, and create a startup that’s low stress, small team and high profit?
As a founder, you have a huge opportunity to create a connection and foster trust. But if you don’t share your story and make it easy to find, potential customers won’t even have a chance to like you.
It’s possible to turn uncertainty into a season of moving forward. Here’s the key: Don’t focus on the outcome. Instead, focus on the exploration.
This is the story of how early investments I made in myself and my business paid off, why I think of my career in phases, and why you should invest in yourself, too.
I surveyed small- to medium-sized companies about which tools they use to plan, create and publish content. Here’s what they told me.