A business acquaintance emailed me the other day: “I am seriously contemplating the plunge….hanging out my own shingle. If you were me, what is the first thing I should do? After emailing you.”

The first thing I told him to do was to email me from his personal email account and not his current employer’s email account. After that, here was my list of considerations for someone in the conceptual stage...

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