The glass is half full: the destruction of negative myths about your own business
There have been so many articles over the past 2 months on the hubr regarding myths and breakdowns of their own business. After reading yesterday straight from the tin , it seemed to me that such reasoning can easily fight off any thoughts about startups and care to float freely in the majority of readers. This is not true, I can say it absolutely for sure - it’s tested on myself.
We started our business a year ago - website development. Prior to this, we all three founders (I-manager, seoshnik and programmer) worked in a well-known studio in our region. For the year we completed everything that we planned. Our studio has become famous in the region, we constantly have new customers and we are engaged in supporting the old. We have a friendly small team of 7 full-time employees and we are working with about 10 freelancers at the moment. And now for the myths.
1. Mental freedom. Plus one. We can define our styles of website development, communication with customers, directions in graphics and software. We ourselves are free to choose where to go, all our forward movements are ours and ours alone. Nobody dictates the rules for us, we can arrange a day off on the studio’s birthday, we can arrange a corporate movie trip on holiday. We ourselves set the tone in the team - the goal is on friendly relations, on a team united by the idea. We arrange the office the way we like and give our employees the freedom to arrange their jobs - as he pleases - the designer has a plush dog on the table, the general director has an Egyptian god figure, and I have a poster with a cat behind me. We are going to the studio - we go to the camp site and go to visit each other - we are always together. This is our freedom.
2. Work out of hours. I can partially agree with this. For the first six months this was really so for me. There were no projects, we started from scratch, phoned customers, looked for orders on freelance. I’ve been to free-lance.ru so often, watched new projects, answered them, polished my portfolio, that now I’m just sick of this site, of its appearance, etc. - but it’s rather emotional) I worked with 7 - in the morning (at this time I started to watch projects, waking up, immediately check mail and projects) until the 24th or 1st new day. I led up to 25 projects right away and was still looking for new ones. I remember when my husband and I came from the cinema, we were away at home for 3 hours, I immediately opened my laptop at one in the morning and began to watch the project tape on freelance - and I caught myself thinking - that's enough, it's time to stop. A month later, we took the manager, then a programmer and then another one, a full-time designer. Six months have just passed. Now I carry out administrative duties and duties of an art director. The husband who worked as a programmer in the studio is coding his own studio projects and managerial crm. We work from 9 to 18, then we do hobbies or household chores. I open mail at home or projects only if there is absolutely nothing to do. Everyone is happy.
3. Financial freedom. As they said in the comments - from the boss you get strictly allotted, from yours - how much you earn, even if it is 1 ruble - but it is yours. We had no particular problems with paying salaries. Of course, employees are always a priority, only then we ourselves. There was a time when we earned less than most of any of our employees. But no one got into loans, did not borrow from friends and did not live from hand to mouth. We earned a normal average salary in our city. If you understand that this is a business, not a toy, then everything will be fine. I will quote one more remarkable statement from the Habré - if you start acting like children, you will get a salary of sweets. (I am not responsible for the accuracy). Thoughts that employees get more than you are negative thoughts. The more business in general earns - the higher the salaries of employees - the more motivated and happy they are. In addition, you still work for yourself, for yourself.
4. Self-realization. A great thing - that's just it all at once. If you organize your business competently, then questions of tax and accounting features will concern you 2-3 times a month in the worst case. I have 1C on my computer, I bill once a day - several at once, it does not bother me. We go to the accountant, whom we pay 2000 (on a remote site) once a month, we meet with the tax once every two months. No straining.
But - the programmer learns new software features, masters the new and sets the tone for programming, the seoshnik is doing his job, and I moved from the category of managers to the category of art director. I like to do design more than delve into programming. I do what I like.
Of course, this was not always the case, but literally half a year. Six months, while we worked together. Now delegation of authority gives freedom for self-realization.
5. My business, my rules.
This is absolutely true, partially I wrote in paragraph 1. we ourselves hire employees, form a friendly team - in which everyone is comfortable working with each other. We have no negativity, envy, aggression and intentional sick leave with holidays. We have ideas that I share everything, the staff is motivated, formalized, a full social package - and a normal salary is average for our region. Everyone works clearly and harmoniously, if necessary - they take work home.
Instead of a conclusion.
Our example is far from ideal, but it is adequate and quite objective. We are not an optimistic sect - and when the situation is unstable, we openly talk about it. I'm just saying that you can look at things from a different angle - the devil is not so terrible as he is painted. Do not be afraid of the myths of people who have just begun, but are already crying. It’s like in a relationship, I always wondered how to quarrel in a candy-bouquet period — this is the time when you recognize a person, a storm of emotions, you try something new - a period of joy and happiness. Not everything goes smoothly of course, but it is smoothed out. Then everything is replaced by stability and confidence. So here - difficult periods pass and are experienced easily - if you look positively. And then the stable functioning begins.
Starting your business is not easy, but it is possible.
We started our business a year ago - website development. Prior to this, we all three founders (I-manager, seoshnik and programmer) worked in a well-known studio in our region. For the year we completed everything that we planned. Our studio has become famous in the region, we constantly have new customers and we are engaged in supporting the old. We have a friendly small team of 7 full-time employees and we are working with about 10 freelancers at the moment. And now for the myths.
1. Mental freedom. Plus one. We can define our styles of website development, communication with customers, directions in graphics and software. We ourselves are free to choose where to go, all our forward movements are ours and ours alone. Nobody dictates the rules for us, we can arrange a day off on the studio’s birthday, we can arrange a corporate movie trip on holiday. We ourselves set the tone in the team - the goal is on friendly relations, on a team united by the idea. We arrange the office the way we like and give our employees the freedom to arrange their jobs - as he pleases - the designer has a plush dog on the table, the general director has an Egyptian god figure, and I have a poster with a cat behind me. We are going to the studio - we go to the camp site and go to visit each other - we are always together. This is our freedom.
2. Work out of hours. I can partially agree with this. For the first six months this was really so for me. There were no projects, we started from scratch, phoned customers, looked for orders on freelance. I’ve been to free-lance.ru so often, watched new projects, answered them, polished my portfolio, that now I’m just sick of this site, of its appearance, etc. - but it’s rather emotional) I worked with 7 - in the morning (at this time I started to watch projects, waking up, immediately check mail and projects) until the 24th or 1st new day. I led up to 25 projects right away and was still looking for new ones. I remember when my husband and I came from the cinema, we were away at home for 3 hours, I immediately opened my laptop at one in the morning and began to watch the project tape on freelance - and I caught myself thinking - that's enough, it's time to stop. A month later, we took the manager, then a programmer and then another one, a full-time designer. Six months have just passed. Now I carry out administrative duties and duties of an art director. The husband who worked as a programmer in the studio is coding his own studio projects and managerial crm. We work from 9 to 18, then we do hobbies or household chores. I open mail at home or projects only if there is absolutely nothing to do. Everyone is happy.
3. Financial freedom. As they said in the comments - from the boss you get strictly allotted, from yours - how much you earn, even if it is 1 ruble - but it is yours. We had no particular problems with paying salaries. Of course, employees are always a priority, only then we ourselves. There was a time when we earned less than most of any of our employees. But no one got into loans, did not borrow from friends and did not live from hand to mouth. We earned a normal average salary in our city. If you understand that this is a business, not a toy, then everything will be fine. I will quote one more remarkable statement from the Habré - if you start acting like children, you will get a salary of sweets. (I am not responsible for the accuracy). Thoughts that employees get more than you are negative thoughts. The more business in general earns - the higher the salaries of employees - the more motivated and happy they are. In addition, you still work for yourself, for yourself.
4. Self-realization. A great thing - that's just it all at once. If you organize your business competently, then questions of tax and accounting features will concern you 2-3 times a month in the worst case. I have 1C on my computer, I bill once a day - several at once, it does not bother me. We go to the accountant, whom we pay 2000 (on a remote site) once a month, we meet with the tax once every two months. No straining.
But - the programmer learns new software features, masters the new and sets the tone for programming, the seoshnik is doing his job, and I moved from the category of managers to the category of art director. I like to do design more than delve into programming. I do what I like.
Of course, this was not always the case, but literally half a year. Six months, while we worked together. Now delegation of authority gives freedom for self-realization.
5. My business, my rules.
This is absolutely true, partially I wrote in paragraph 1. we ourselves hire employees, form a friendly team - in which everyone is comfortable working with each other. We have no negativity, envy, aggression and intentional sick leave with holidays. We have ideas that I share everything, the staff is motivated, formalized, a full social package - and a normal salary is average for our region. Everyone works clearly and harmoniously, if necessary - they take work home.
Instead of a conclusion.
Our example is far from ideal, but it is adequate and quite objective. We are not an optimistic sect - and when the situation is unstable, we openly talk about it. I'm just saying that you can look at things from a different angle - the devil is not so terrible as he is painted. Do not be afraid of the myths of people who have just begun, but are already crying. It’s like in a relationship, I always wondered how to quarrel in a candy-bouquet period — this is the time when you recognize a person, a storm of emotions, you try something new - a period of joy and happiness. Not everything goes smoothly of course, but it is smoothed out. Then everything is replaced by stability and confidence. So here - difficult periods pass and are experienced easily - if you look positively. And then the stable functioning begins.
Starting your business is not easy, but it is possible.