Step one is deciding to start

The first step to starting a business is deciding to start a business. They say the first step is the hardest and in our experience this is especially true when it comes to starting a business. Getting over the mental roadblocks can be tough, often harder to overcome than the challenges you’ll face once you actually start the business. Fellow entrepreneurs share their thoughts below.
I have always been in the food and beverage, so I knew I wanted to stay in the industry. When we were living the bayarea I used to visit our local coffee shop all the time and kind of fell in love with the culture. After moving to Arizona I started to work for a local shop here, they were new at the time so I had the chance learn and grow a long side them. After a few years at that shop I knew I wanted to start something on my own. Read more>>
I’ve always wanted to own and operate my own business- I just never thought I had the time or knowledge to start. Charcuterie has been an interest of mine for years. I’m notorious for bringing an intricate board to every occasion – even if it’s a party of one! I officially moved from California to Arizona in the beginning of 2020 – right before the pandemic hit. Read more>>
For me I have always wanted to have my own business, make my own hours, run things the way that I think they should be run. It was a plan that I had to be down the road but did not expect that it would happen so soon. The company that I was working for was going under and I started to work remotely for them, after a while the signs that the company was not going to make it pushed me to go fully on my own. I do not regret it at all, hard at first be well worth the work. Read more>>
When I was starting my own business 5 years ago my thought process was that I was working for others for the previous 7 years. I was working 40 hours a week at 4 other facilities over 7 years. I was always helping other owners create success at the same time working towards my personal goal of impacting more lives than McDonalds has served. 5 years ago I had a plan of that didn’t go the way I had planned. I took it as a sign that the future didn’t need look exactly the way I envisioned it, as long as I was not standing still. Read more>>
The thought process behind starting my own business started at a very early age. At the age of 11, I started a neighborhood newspaper to bind our community together. There were 12 houses on our street, and so I appropriately named my newspaper, the Wide World of News. And so in our newspaper, we used a typewriter. And in order to produce the number of copies I needed, I had to buy carbon paper. So I would type the newspaper six times to get 12 copies. And it was that carbon paper investment that ended up putting me out of business. Read more>>