8 Entrepreneurs Share Their Best Advice for When the Going Gets Tough
“In the company’s first two years, we were working from my parents’ basement with about 10 customers each paying us $10 a month. I was taking business calls from a furnace room. All the signs were there that we were failing, and I was close to calling it quits. I remember glancing over at my co-founder Levi, coding away at a desk and bobbing his head to some tunes.
“He was totally loving what we were doing, what we were building. I remember thinking, There’s a guy who’s way smarter than me, and he’s all in. I knew if I were to ask him how things were going, he’d say, ‘Mike, we had seven people try the product today, that’s amazing, right?’
“That kind of positivity kept me going in the early days. What I can offer is this: When you’re having that kind of self doubt, surround yourself with people who will inspire you and keep you going.” — Mike McDerment, FreshBooks CEO and Co-founder
Published at Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000
