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I struggle with scaling up my business. I have been working from home for the past 10 years and I have websites that generate ok money ($100K/y). My struggle is

I struggle with scaling up my business. I have been working from home for the past 10 years and I have websites that generate ok money ($100K/y). My struggle is I just can't get myself to hire my first full time employee. I tried it many years ago but after facing the headache of hiring, dealing with attrition, training, etc, it took away all my focus from work. I feel management is a skill I just don't have. Also working from home, staying with my family i now lack the motivation to get up on time and commute, go to an office, etc. Yet my business is as is for the last many years. I've tried hiring freelancers and VAs but that too never lasts for more that 2 months. Hiring freelance programmers has also never worked for me and in the end I always think it would have been easier if I had done it in the first place. So that is my biggest struggle for many years now :(

tinktank 8y ago
Get a partner who is just as invested as you (deferred equity over a number of years works well) and lean on them for some of the management functions.
- dhruvkar 8y ago
  Finding a partner is just as hard (if not harder) than finding and managing a reliable employee. This advice gets thrown around a lot, and while it's helpful as an option to consider, it often doesn't solve the posed issue.
grizzles 8y ago
I can relate to this. Try to find someone part time who you can trust and will stick around for awhile. Look outside your bubble of hackernews etc, might be a mom or a retired guy, whatever. Baby steps.
- ksdale 8y ago
  This, the people you think wouldn't have the relevant skills can surprise you! My wife went through a couple professional VAs who were... set in their ways and expensive for what they were delivering and then hired a recent college grad with absolutely no experience and she's been a total lifesaver.
peacetreefrog 8y ago
what are your websites?

tinktank 8y ago

Get a partner who is just as invested as you (deferred equity over a number of years works well) and lean on them for some of the management functions.

dhruvkar 8y ago
Finding a partner is just as hard (if not harder) than finding and managing a reliable employee. This advice gets thrown around a lot, and while it's helpful as an option to consider, it often doesn't solve the posed issue.

grizzles 8y ago

I can relate to this. Try to find someone part time who you can trust and will stick around for awhile. Look outside your bubble of hackernews etc, might be a mom or a retired guy, whatever. Baby steps.

ksdale 8y ago
This, the people you think wouldn't have the relevant skills can surprise you! My wife went through a couple professional VAs who were... set in their ways and expensive for what they were delivering and then hired a recent college grad with absolutely no experience and she's been a total lifesaver.

peacetreefrog 8y ago

what are your websites?