History tells you to wait until people are trying to sell you things they used to say are worth a lot of money so they can eat

Read this

https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Mentors-Short-Advice-World/dp/1328994961

Don’t offer equity

Put spacing in your writing and between your paragraphs

Have you spoken with your local SCORE counselors?

https://www.score.org/find-mentor

When a person asks for a driver to drive them to the store, which do you believe is more important to the rider?

The car they are sitting in

OR

The driver they chose to get them there

You need to pay FICA taxes out of your salary.

I don’t think just sending $14,000 to your personal bank account is the best idea. So if you can wait to speak to your CPA, then do that.

You shouldn’t be speaking with a financial advisor about this unless they are a CPA or EA.

You pay them so they don’t have to be your friends.

What’s the worst thing that can happen if you post the pictures?

It’s business. Not personal.

Just a word to the wise; do not say that phrase to the employee.

Your post does not have enough information, but I don’t really want to get into the details.

But want to point out a statement that people who understand small business make sometimes when they consider no buying a business.

Are you selling a business or are you selling a job?

Because if you were selling a business,cit would be able to run itself profitably without you there working it day in and day out. If all of the profits in the business is essentially what you are making normally in a job, then it’s like having a job with more risk and responsibility.

Serious people make serious posts

You’re not a serious person

I’m not here for a debate, just giving you a wake up call

Some observations to show I’m serious:

First. Your title has nothing to do with your post and starts things off with a negative attitude. If you wanted more effective feedback, you would write the question right from the start and would have a more welcoming or positive title. It suggests a lack of maturity and perhaps a sense of entitled thinking and / or an inability the changes. But most importantly, someone reading this has to hunt through the post to begin to figure out what you are asking help about. Wading through a bunch of nonsense and complaints to get to some odd question about pricing. And then random questions about your service in general. And to be clear, it’s confusing to read.

Second. If you want to be a good entrepreneur and successful at soliciting feedback, you need to spend time thinking through how you are going to organize it. I would spend 2-4 hours if necessary to make something look professional or clear to an audience that I thought I could get good feedback from; for free even. I would write an outline and then draft out something. Then I would wait a day and review what I wrote and edited it a couple of times; potentially adding or removing things. Then I would give that draft to several others to take a look at first to make sure it was clear and concise. After that I would incorporate their feedback and then review it one more time before posting it. That’s what a serious person would do. Instead you post a stream of conscious thing that is cluttered and all over the place. If I were a potential customer, I wouldn’t take you seriously unless I absolutely needed your products and there was no other companies providing the service or there were no substitutes for the products or services you sold.

I hope you take this feedback as honest criticisms that you can use to improve yourself. Good luck.

What is the issue?

Your state probably also matters, but this may help

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/toolkits/pages/managingdownsizing.aspx#:~:text=Effective layoff practices include%3A,dealing with post-layoff considerations.