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Why solopreneurs have the edge early on

Name: Why solopreneurs have the edge early on
Uploaded: 2025-05-21T12:12:51+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: A short spoken segment arguing that businesses under $500k/year are effectively solopreneurs and that this status is an advantage in sales because some…

21 May 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken segment arguing that businesses under $500k/year are effectively solopreneurs and that this status is an advantage in sales because some clients prefer working directly with an owner. The speaker recommends leveraging that personal relationship early, while acknowledging potential pains when scaling and adding a team.

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If you're under 500k a year, you're not really a business. Like, you're kind of a solopreneur. That's an advantage, though, in the sales process, because there's some people who are always going to appreciate working with that solopreneur, where you're working directly with the business owner. They're supporting small business, they like you as a person, they want to work directly with you. And so use that advantage starting out. And it's going to be a little bit of a painful process with some of those clients once you do pivot down the road once you start bringing on a team. But I think it's still worth using that advantage up front, because you have so many disadvantages against a larger company that you kind of got to work with what you got.