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The Single Biggest Mistake Crushing Your Company - Inc.com (No paywall) My co-founder and I built BottleKeeper, an e-commerce brand, from $0 to $8,000,000 in three years with no employees, investors, or debt. We were acquired with just four team members as an eight-figure revenue company. Now, that is an "after the fact" sound bite that was nearly a decade of struggle and almost came to a catastrophic end on countless occasions.
Yes, we made a lot of mistakes at BottleKeeper, but we also built a healthy business that was efficient and profitable. This wasn't an accident, it was intentional. Now I can share hard-earned lessons to help other early-stage operators and e-commerce entrepreneurs achieve outweighed results.
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