The uncertainty of entrepreneurship causes many entrepreneurs to put off starting their business. For others, losing a job or other economic hardships push them starting their businesses earlier than expected. In our conversations with thousands of entrepreneurs we’ve seen so much variety in when, how and why people started their business and so we wanted to share a wide variety of views and reflections on the question of whether these folks wished they had started sooner or waited longer before starting their businesses.

Austin Lincoln

I do wish I would have started my business earlier. Ever since I can remember, my mind has been flooded with images of things I find beautiful. I also tend to hear music even when I am not playing music. Because of this, I decided to really teach myself how to bring these musical notes and images to life. Read more>>

Priscilla Nagy

If I could go back in time I would of started my own business sooner. I remember being younger and so eager to achieve success. I didn’t even really know what that meant at the time. I had so many ideas!! My grandmother was a hairdresser. I can recall her cutting my brothers hair in the backyard. I always loved the suckers we would get after our haircuts. My grandmother lived kinda far so we didn’t go there often for our hair. Read more>>

Laney Beall Tepes

I started Bees Knees Beauty Studio January 2022. It was right after all the Covid 19 crisis had hit, but it was no longer the peak of the crisis. I had noticed that during Covid customer service had really taken a turn for the worst, and people’s mental health greatly was suffering too! Business were very quick with customer interaction, and hurried business practices. Read more>>

Marciele Surrell-Dean

If I could go back in time I definitely would of started my business a lot sooner because that means I would of also started my health/fitness journey sooner as well. When I started my business I was still as I am now working a full time job at Aramark where I’m a Route Sales Representative. I was at a part in my life where I wanted to become the healthiest version of myself, I then contacting a very good friend of mine to give me all the info on a company that he was partnered with called Isagenix. Read more>>

Jackie Rabbit

I wish that I had not waited so long to pursue my creative interests outside of tattooing. Most people have been told at some point during childhood that creative careers don’t pay. We get told that writing or playing music isn’t a “job” and that art isn’t worth anything til after you die. With those words of wisdom in mind but with a determination to do SOMETHING artistic as a career, I chose tattooing as my path. Read more>>

Danielle Marcial

I started my photography journey in October 2022, exactly a year from todays interview. At the time I had only ever known a career in Human Resources and never thought of a career in anything creative, let alone photography. Being a very shy and somewhat awkward person the thought of meeting strangers and taking their photos seemed terrifying but something about picking up a camera and getting lost in the art has given me a newfound confidence in myself and has made me come out of my shell. Read more>>

Kira Adams

Knowing what I know now, I do wish I had started researching self-publishing even a few years prior to when I did. It would have given me more time to push out my books to a booming audience that would eat them up and also write a big enough backlist of books to be able to rapid release. The reason I had so much success in the beginning of my career was because I had a handful of books already written just waiting to be published. It took the wait time out of it. Read more>>