r/Entrepreneurship

I'm about to open a suit store business in a mall, at the moment I'm dealing with a real estate agent to make everything professional, the mall has asked us to send them a business plan, from my experience in business marketing studies i know what are the mall needs, but i want to create a professional business plan that covers everything because this is my only chance to have a shop.

chat GPT has already helped me with the main points:

1. Executive Summary
2. Company Overview
3. Why this mall
4. Market Analysis
5. Target Customer Analysis
6. Competitor Analysis
7. Products & Services
8. Store Experience Strategy
9. Branding & Positioning
10. Marketing Strategy
11. Sales Strategy
12. Operations Plan
13. Financial Plan
14. Risk Analysis & Mitigation
15. 12-Month Implementation Timeline
16. Long-Term Growth Strategy
17. Founder Background
18. Appendices
19. Conclusion

is this enough or should i add more, also should i be adding statistics to prove my points?

should i add any colors or images? or just plain?

thank you for your time! I'm open for any recommendations .

Mid Life crisis is real and for some it hits hard when in 35-45 years old. Mounting family pressure, peer pressure not sure where life is heading, career is directionless, not sure whether to do something of own or find a job.

Its where the shit hits the roof?

How many of us crumble our dreams in this stage?
Some rise and rise?
but majority succumb under pressure and conditions?

Do you know someone who has gone through this?
Is it a story of every 2nd Entrepreneur?

How you deal with it? or Do you just live with it!

I’ve been thinking of starting my own event hosting company, but I’m not entire sure where to get started.
How much start up capital should I have at my disposal to get up and running?
Should I begin with building an in-person or online presence first?
What are some overall things to study and educate myself on before taking on an endeavor like this?

All feedback and advice is welcome

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How can a visual artist achieve financial success, beyond just building followers and gaining recognition?

Beyond classics, tutorials, workshops, and selling works, what can an artist do in the modern world?

They say most businesses flourish by solving real issues, but what issues do artists solve?

Title says it all. I’ve owned a store front for ten years. The first 7 were fun. Then real life came and went I now live 2 states away from my business traveling every other week for 2 days to take clients and make sure shit isn’t on fire. Ever since I moved a couple years ago I lost 2 people, fired one (never had to before) now I just had a resignation for next month and someone moving this week. I’m left with two employees. I’m just tired. I have an infant at home and I just want to know from everyone is… when has the juice lost the squeeze? Did you preserve when you felt like you were ready to loose it all? Start all over? SOS I’m just rambling …

I’m 19.

On paper, my life looks like it’s moving in the right direction.

I’ve won university innovation challenges, received some funding, and I spend most of my time obsessing over startups, AI systems, infrastructure, Africa’s future, and building things that could genuinely matter one day.

But internally, it feels completely different.

Almost every day, I feel this strange pressure that I’m already behind.

Not behind my peers.

Behind my own vision.

And I think that’s the part people around me don’t see.

My brain is constantly thinking 10–15 years ahead:

systems,

companies,

scale,

impact,

execution,

leverage,

long-term positioning.

Meanwhile, my actual reality is still:

unfinished projects,

small results,

limited resources,

inconsistent execution,

confusion,

learning through mistakes in real time.

It creates this weird psychological split where externally you look “promising,” but internally you feel like you haven’t earned the right to think that big yet.

Sometimes I genuinely can’t tell if:

I’m early in a long journey,

or if ambition itself is distorting my perception of progress.

I also think social media and startup culture make this worse.

You constantly see stories about:

22-year-old founders raising millions,

AI startups exploding overnight,

“10x builders,”

teenagers becoming rich before graduation.

Even when you know survivorship bias exists, your brain still absorbs the pressure.

So I’m curious about something deeper than motivation.

For older founders/builders/operators:

Did you ever feel psychologically “late” while still objectively being early?

How did you balance extreme ambition with patience?

When did things stop feeling imaginary and start feeling real?

Did your expectations of success timelines completely change over time?

How do you prevent vision from becoming a source of constant internal pressure?

I’m less interested in motivational advice and more interested in the psychology of long-term building.

Because sometimes it feels like ambitious people mentally live in the future so much that the present starts feeling permanently insufficient.

Alright I’m Ben aged 21. This is my first Reddit post idrk how it works but have always used it for advice.

Have a read then rate my effort at a post out of 10

I quit my job 4 months ago and moved country. My goal was to start a business and say goodbye to a 9 to 5.

For an update as to how it’s going I’ve applied for 20 jobs today and have 4 interviews lined up for next week.

Still having a great time mind, and I’m not sure if I’ll even accept these jobs - but it’s nice to know that I can if I want to.

But anyway. I’m still building my newest brand, Dashin’ Supplements. Having a great time and it’s something I’m genuinely interested in and feel great purpose from - my aim is to inspire self improvement.

This is just my ‘in’ and it it fails I’ll find another - but it won’t fail it’s the best supplement ever. I promise.

Just looking to connect with people. People who’ve done it before, people who won, lost, haven’t tried yet. People who dgaf anyone.

Anyway first Reddit post what do we think? What’s your plans this summer ?

My name is Mariexits, and I'm a co-creator. My platform is called ARXMANTIER, part of an RWA asset development and financing group.

Now, I am looking for a select group of young people committed to bringing ideas, businesses, or projects to fruition.

Online courses, however comprehensive they may be, leave a feeling of emptiness. My approach goes far beyond simply transmitting knowledge. It is a co-creation, between my experience and their aspirations. I eliminate the barrier of time and space, I immerse myself in your world to understand the present challenges.

It is a life narrative that not only makes sense in the present, but is also anchored in the past and projects into the future.

My mentorship isn't a magic formula, it's a tool. By developing and co-creating with me, you acquire skills aligned with your purpose or goal and knowledge.

Unlike in courses, in my mentoring I let go of the "I." My thoughts and actions flow spontaneously and authentically, adapting to the specific needs of the development.

A personal and unique support in the market.

This mentorship program truly covers everything from starting a business and securing capital to finding investors, users, and sales.

Underlying it all is the complete development of your project, adhering to a standardized development approach.

Understanding that starting from scratch can be a path full of challenges and complex decisions, we go straight to action and development.

General objective: Develop an active network of projects, talent, platforms, and technological tools that enable adoption and human development.

I will support every project; I will create a dedicated group.

I'm a real estate agent and I've been on the fence about getting an assistant for a while. I don't mind hiring but.. the training, the back and forth, and handing over your CRM to a stranger seems a bit scary.

I tried once and spent more time managing them than just doing it myself.

Curious if anyone's cracked this. Did you find someone who already knew the tools or did you train from scratch? Was it worth it?

Hi guys. I'm building an outsourced bookkeeping and fractional CFO business. I'm not a bookkeeper, CPA or fractional CFO. I'm a sales and marketing guy who sees a ton of potential in this industry and know's how to get customers. Currently, I outsource all our work to another bookkeeping company. We have a white-label relationship. All the work is branded by my company, and customers pay my company. They don't know about the other company. They pretty much do what we do. We're just better at marketing.

My issue is this: I have no idea how I should be looking at this from the fulfilment/systems perspective. I have no idea if pawning off leads to this guys business is efficient, scalable, etc. Our margins are tight, because we're outsourcing to a business.

My question is this: What would you do in my situation? Again, I have no accounting backround at all. I'm just good at marketing and sales.

A few paths I'm weighing:

1. Stay with our current white-label partner (overseas team, sub 50% margin, when industry standard margins are over 80%)
2. Hire one US bookkeeper or controller, give profit share, call him a partner and let them sit on discovery calls to help with sales (since i don't know the language) and do the fulfilment. add more as we scale.

As operators, what would you guys do in my position?

I need perspective from people who worked in aerospace, robotics, defense, embedded systems, or deep-tech startups.

I lead BD in a company where a huge amount of technical and architectural knowledge is concentrated in one person (CEO/CTO). We’re talking about 14+ years of accumulated system knowledge, design history, integration logic, etc.

At the same time, actual implementation already relies on engineers, while architecture and decision-making remain highly centralized around this one person.

The issue is my CEO is currently under heavy personal stress (his only parent s dying), and very unlikely he will be able to work normally any time soon. knowing him well, i predict he will be talking about suicide and crying for another 6 months at least. however, he still believes delegating responsibility is riskier than continuing as the single point of failure.

why does him have trust issues? I think he is afraid of people stealing the work/IP? losing control? I cant tell.

I suggested to hire someone else as CTO temporarily.

But the response is basically:
“no one can understand 14 years of work in a few months.”

Which is true to some extent. But relying entirely on one exhausted/suicidal person also feels extremely dangerous operationally.

For people who’ve seen this before: how do companies successfully transition out of founder knowledge bottlenecks?

my friend advised me to get another job before my reputation will be ruined by developments in this company I work now.

I've been cold calling to generate clients for my business for over a year, but I often struggle to get started with doing it some days.

Working from home, I'm not physically around other people that are making calls, and I think that makes it harder to get started and keep going.

I wondered if there are other business owners that are in a similar situation. Maybe entrepreneurs that are lacking accountability to do sales activity.

If you have suggestions on what you've found helpful for generating sales from cold calls, then it would be great to hear about them.

One thing I've tried recently is doing online coworking sessions with other people when I'm attempting to make calls. It's sometimes called body doubling, and I find it helps me to focus.

Essentially it's two people on a Zoom / Google Meet, where you're both on camera, but the microphones are muted.

You have a quick chat at the start of the session to set intentions / goals, and then focus on your work for about 50 minutes, before having a second chat to give feedback on how you got on.

This has been helpful, but I feel it could be better. Most of the people I do these sessions with are not actually making calls during the session (they just find it helpful for focusing on their work projects, which is why they do them).

I think doing these sessions with other business owners, where both people are making calls at the same time, could make these sessions work better.

I think having a cold calling buddy could make it feel like a power hour that helps get my motivation to call a lot higher, and help generate more sales.

I'm curious if other business owners have tried this and if you've found it effective?

im just starting my pressure washing business here in fort worth and leads have been pretty slow even with google my business set up. as a total beginner i know a nice fast website could help bring in more customers but im not sure if its smart to pay for one now or keep it cheap at the beginning.

i had a quick call with an agency and they offered a clean professional site with good mobile design conversion focused layout and easy buttons for booking. do most of you think its better to get a pro website early or start with something basic and upgrade later?

thanks

A few friends and I are technical founders (mid-20s, SWE background) and over the past months we built a pretty advanced internal search/retrieval system.

The engineering side went great. We learned a lot, solved hard technical problems, and built something we genuinely think is useful.

But now we hit a wall:

We honestly don’t know how to find the real pain points companies deal with day-to-day.

We assumed:
“if the tech is good enough, companies will find use cases.”

Reality seems very different.

We tried:

• cold emails
• LinkedIn outreach
• demos
• talking to random founders/operators (some were really interested and we are in touch, but no real action or action involved yet, looks like they are waiting a bit more)

I think we made the classic technical-founder mistake:
building infrastructure before deeply understanding the business problem.

So now I’m curious how others approached this phase.

How did you:

• find your first actual business problem worth solving?
• get access to real users/workflows?
• learn what companies actually struggle with internally?

There is a startup in India doing exactly this. At first I thought it sounded ridiculous, but after digging into it, the idea actually says a lot about how people are consuming food now. It is less about mangoes and more about trust, sourcing, and experience.