How Tiny Businesses Are Born

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At dinner a few years ago, I was sitting next to a fellow talented, tiny business owner and we were talking the way we do, swapping stories and offering advice to each other. A friend of a friend sat down and said that she wished she owned a business…so that she could work fewer hours and do whatever she wanted all day long as we did. This was followed by silence and blank stares from both of us.