Services firms are a daily startup

Being a startup founder is a challenge and the daily existence of being a founder is such that most are unprepared for the realities of it. I write about some of the principles of being a Founder in my book, The Founder’s Manual.

Running a services firm is much like the daily existence of a startup, except services firms can be viable sooner and longer than most startups. The viability part is good. The daily startup existence not so much.

The day in and day out existence of most services firms being similar to startups is because of the…