# DO YOU OWN A BUSINESS???

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**Created:** [August 19, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/do-you-own-a-business/254051 "2010-08-19T13:31:19Z")\
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> [@A few of us going to Lancaster Tuesday,](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-few-of-us-going-to-lancaster-tuesday/34464/6):
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> Plan on the beginning being slow.

Going to disagree with you here. Based on my experience I would have failed if I had planned on it being slow in the beginning. You have to be prepared for extreme expansion as well as slow growth.

For me, I hit the ground running when I landed a major corporate client within the first 2 weeks of business. The entire first year was a mess, not because it was slow, but because it was almost too fast.

Basically we did what we had to, to make it work. Since then it has been a game of making everything efficient and things have got a LOT better.

But you never know what is going to happen, to be truly prepared, you need to cover all possibilities.

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