Solopreneurship is the destination, not a starting point

Solopreneurship is not just a route to creating a bigger company. It can be the final structure of your business.

You may or may not know that I'm working on creating a course, a path, a guide to starting a solo Internet business and being successful with it, based on my 15+ years of experience living and breathing this topic.

By the way, "Batch zero" is already sold out and will launch in June with a small number of people. Then I'll have a big launch in October, don't worry, and you'll be the first to know when signups open!

One of the people enrolled in batch zero sent me this reflection via email:

"I suppose solopreneurship could just be a route to creating a company at large"

This made me think.

My idea on this is that it can surely be a gateway to creating a bigger company, sure, but also... it doesn't have to.

It's definitely not what I want with my solopreneur Internet business.

There is nothing that prevents us from keeping a solopreneur business... a solopreneur business.

If you're starting from zero, imagine you have this kind of solo tiny Internet business:

• you have no boss

• you have no employees

• you don't have to respond to anyone

• you have freedom

• you can manage your time

• you have control

• your business is very profitable and semi-automated

• you can work from anywhere

• you have little stress

Now tell me why you'd want to:

• hire people

• transition to being a manager

• transition to solving organizational issues

• dealing with a bad hire

• dealing with delegation issues

• dealing with communication issues

• micromanaging

• have people problems

• dealing with employee’s equipment

• worry about security and trust

• having to worry about company-wide password management

• wake up with crises you didn't create but have to solve

• complicating your company structure and financials

• having to organize team retreats and worrying about keeping the team morale high

• worrying if your employees are productive or spending their time on social media

• worrying about correctly handling all the labor laws and taxes and insurance and benefits and bonuses.

• worrying about your company culture

• worrying about having a "mission" and "core values"

• ...and a million other things I do not know about

I'm smiling right now and I feel such a piece of mind because I will never have to deal with these things ever in my life.

Because my solo tiny Internet business is my goal, my north star, my destination. I'm already there. I just need to keep it alive. And grow it on my terms.

We might have very different goals if you want to scale a company to multiple people.

But if you're like me, and work is just a way to enable a life of freedom and experiences other than work for the sake of work, solopreneurship is not just a route to creating a bigger company, it can be the final structure of your business.