Answer to question 1: Yes, I do it all by myself. No help whatsoever.

Answer to question 2: I simultaneously lose money and the will to live.

Lies, more people steal profit. Just do all yourself and keep all the monies.

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Sounds like all of the solo founders try to do everything themselves until the workload becomes too heavy. Is this the correct approach to find out the time when you need to hire employees?

I had asked the exact same thing but the post didn’t get traction. OP asked the same thing but framed it in a way better, simple form. This helps.

I have my leadership coaching company after 20years leadership role in corporate, I immediately got an accountant as I know I don’t want to spend time on this ( even though mg background was finance)

One man, kind of. I have one full time developer and the rest is me. It’s chill. My solution is software, specifically an AI assistant that joins your meetings and reads your emails, takes notes, updates CRM, etc

I did it before with 3 partners and grew it to 1500 employees…it sucked.

Me. Formulating cosmetics. But the past month I’ve been fully focused on Israel-Gaza and haven’t been producing at all.

Build PVC fences.

Nope.

I pay professionals so I can focus on other things.

Thinking you can start, operate a business by yourself without help is insane…

For the most part, I’m still wearing all the hats. Hired a sales rep, didn’t work out. My wife occasionally helps me label and pack our products, but with a toddler she has to spend more time with him.

I’m tired.

My business consistently profits over 5 figures a month, but I’m in a position where there’s really no hiring I can do right now to take the load off. I’ve been considering using 3pls for a bit, but that’s just not the bottleneck that needs to be taken care of first. I’m taking a few days off after some big markets this week to sort of enjoy the holidays and refresh and then I have to get the rest of my end of years purchase orders out. After that, I’m hibernating and changing the way we do business to squeeze more profit with less volume as well as starting another business to help people in my position.

I’m a one man and van tradesman. Do all the books, quoting, scheduling, measuring, ordering, installing etc…. Fkin love it, being in complete control of my life and making awesome $$$$

One woman team here, managing my content, systems, SOP’s, etc, makes me want to cry sometimes, but learning how to delegate as the revenue goes up slowly.

I started off as a one-woman show for my matchmaking company. In the beginning, I did all of the legal, accounting, matchmaking, recruiting, date coaching, marketing, etc. After a while, once your company grows, you are better off outsourcing a lot of the other work to pros. Now I just strictly focus on matching and date coaching my clients. The whole process from the beginning to now has been fun :D

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