A corporate manager with 15-20 years of experience left to start a services firm. Within three weeks of launch, they landed their first client. Six years later, the company has 50 staff and leads its market.
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You know, I think I have been a little more fortunate actually. It felt like it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. I always think in retrospect, I wish I'd done it even earlier, but at the same time, my experience really helped. So I was in corporate America for 15, 20 years and really learned a lot about everything from management to building a team to internally promoting my team and myself, building methodologies, all of that. And I'd been in data quite heavily for a while. And I'd just been thinking about creating a services firm for a long time, probably a decade of just kind of thinking through it, percolating it, you know, and I finally just found myself with the opportunity. It was my sort of in transition between jobs. And I thought, you know, maybe the time is finally right. Here I am. And, you know, within 3 weeks I actually had my first client.