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How a First-Time Founder Hired Her First Employee Too Early
In episode 18 of The Founder's Journey, Lucas and Luna unpack the story of a first-time entrepreneur who made a classic mistake: hiring her first employee before the business could support it. They walk through how the founder — a solo service provider in the content marketing space — brought on a full-time writer after just four months of solid revenue growth, only to watch her margins evaporate and her stress double. The episode drills into the specific numbers: how she mistook a $15,000 month for a sustainable baseline, why she ignored freelancer benchmarks, and the painful six-month…
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