starting a design business
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- cannonball1978
Anyone got any tips or wisdom from doing this? I'm planning on incorporating a practice that will be about 50% internal product design/incubation and 50% consultation. Thought I'd ask as I'm sure more than a few of you have probably dove into this kind of thing dreaming of career independence.
- JonWilliams0
May be obvious but worth stating, if it's only 50% consulting make sure your plan has that aspect of the business accounting for 100% of revenue for at least the first 18–24 months. Products rake time to incubate and even longer to generate revenue.
- omg0
The Journey is the Reward
- ETM0
When I started mine I saved up about 6-8 months worth of living expenses first and had a hand full of clients from moonlighting. That way I could better concentrate on what needed to be done and not get distracted by finances, wringing my hands over when payment was coming or at all.
- The worrying about being utterly broke will destroy any creativity you have and burn you out, leaving you with nothing.mikotondria3
- Honestly.mikotondria3