23-year-old founder · Software Development Agency
What Bill helped me see.
Cash, people, pricing and the things a young agency founder wishes he’d understood earlier.
A personal account. Name withheld.
Read the storyThe mission
Pass it on.
Help someone build.
More people should have access to the kind of perspective that helps them take their next step.
Why I’m here
Experience is useful.
Sharing it is better.
Building a business comes with decisions you’ve never had to make before. Cash gets tight. People need direction. Opportunities arrive before you feel ready.
I started BuiltOnTime to share the things I’ve learned through those decisions. The lessons from leading, rebuilding and investing, along with the perspective that comes from getting things wrong and having to work through them.
If you’re young, ambitious, curious or building something of your own, I want this to be a useful place to start.
Why I started BuiltOnTimeWhat that looks like
Knowledge. Support.
Opportunity.
01 / Knowledge
Share something useful.
Clear, practical lessons on money, people, leadership and decisions. Information you can return to and apply to your own situation.
02 / Mentorship
Offer another perspective.
Sometimes the most useful help is a better question. A different way of looking at the problem. Someone encouraging you to act.
03 / Opportunity
Back people who build.
I’m interested in people who ask for advice, put it into practice and keep showing up. Supporting that ambition is part of why I’m here.
Who this is for
Curious about business.
Ready to learn.
01 / Starting out
Make space for questions.
If you’re exploring an idea or starting a business, use the lessons to find questions you haven’t yet thought to ask.
02 / Building something
Step back from the day-to-day.
If you’re already running a business, bring a specific decision about priorities, cash or people and explore another perspective.
03 / Finding a way forward
Think through the next decision.
If something has gone wrong, start with the facts, the options and the part of the situation you can influence.
Put it into practice
Take one useful idea.
Do something with it.
Choose a lesson that relates to what you’re facing. Write down what it changes about how you see the situation.
Decide on one action that fits your circumstances, who will own it and when you’ll review what happened. Return to the lesson with what you’ve learned.
Read about putting advice into actionThe mission in practice
Perspective meets
a real situation.
A founder describes what he took from conversations with Bill, what he acted on and what remained unresolved. The business still reached an insolvency plan; the account preserves that outcome.
For the next generation
You don’t need to have
all the answers to
take the next step.
Start with curiosity. Get perspective. Put what you learn to work.
A little perspective goes a long way
You don’t have to figure
it all out alone.
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