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- Mar 27, 2021
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This is a tough decision and I’m honestly not sure what to do.
My longtime and then most successful business (we were doing $35k to $40k a month at the height) failed in 2019.
It almost bankrupted me at 23.
I just turned 25.
It has been 20 months since I closed that business. In those 20 months I’ve been living hand to mouth and running on empty trying to dig myself out of debt and get something started again.
It just hasn’t happened. I’m burned out and mentally running on empty. As it is I’m living on little tiny bits of income here and there and am still living with my parents.
Late last month I was approached by a friend who had been following me on Facebook. She had a job offer for me.
She has worked in the financial publishing world for almost ten years and has a couple different companies that she’s running with a partner that are all very high profile in the industry.
She just struck a deal with a private equity firm to take control of a large, actively managed niche email list from one of the companies the PE firm acquired.
She wants me to come in and build and run a publishing company around that list.
If you’re familiar with Agora Financial then this company would be mimicking their structure and setup (bringing in experts and building brands around them and then launching offers to the list).
I basically wrote my own job description which she loved.
I’m going to be taking the job. I’ll be getting a salary ($75k) plus equity in the company that I will be building.
Here’s where I’m stuck. Do I go all in on this and give up on building a business myself on the side? Can building a business this way even be a Fastlane strategy?
My longtime and then most successful business (we were doing $35k to $40k a month at the height) failed in 2019.
It almost bankrupted me at 23.
I just turned 25.
It has been 20 months since I closed that business. In those 20 months I’ve been living hand to mouth and running on empty trying to dig myself out of debt and get something started again.
It just hasn’t happened. I’m burned out and mentally running on empty. As it is I’m living on little tiny bits of income here and there and am still living with my parents.
Late last month I was approached by a friend who had been following me on Facebook. She had a job offer for me.
She has worked in the financial publishing world for almost ten years and has a couple different companies that she’s running with a partner that are all very high profile in the industry.
She just struck a deal with a private equity firm to take control of a large, actively managed niche email list from one of the companies the PE firm acquired.
She wants me to come in and build and run a publishing company around that list.
If you’re familiar with Agora Financial then this company would be mimicking their structure and setup (bringing in experts and building brands around them and then launching offers to the list).
I basically wrote my own job description which she loved.
I’m going to be taking the job. I’ll be getting a salary ($75k) plus equity in the company that I will be building.
Here’s where I’m stuck. Do I go all in on this and give up on building a business myself on the side? Can building a business this way even be a Fastlane strategy?
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