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Why You Should Never Despise Small Beginnings in Business: You Gotta Start Somewhere

May 12, 2025
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It works! I opened up my phone and saw a text message from Wells Fargo that said, “You just got paid!” I was like, “Who, me?” and I started smiling. I immediately made a Facebook post about small beginnings because somehow, I always tend to forget this.

When I built out my first company, I built it with the intention for it to make residual income, although I really didn’t know what I was doing at the time.

I got a deposit today from Teachable, and it reminded me of that. I built the system out about 10 months ago for The Ground Up Academy, and at the time, it was on a monthly subscription model. The deposits I’m seeing now come from the people who were grandfathered in. We’ve since moved to a yearly subscription base, but it’s still subscription-based nonetheless.

Let me get back to the point. When you’re building out a system, it takes time. A lot of times, we want something to work immediately, but for most people, it doesn’t work like that. Take your time, build it out right, and always be thinking about the future. Because if you build the foundation right, in time, the system will produce again and again and again for you.

I’m not sure if I remembered my first company when I started building out The Ground Up Academy, but I thank God that I was reminded of it today. So I wanted to do two things—one, write this blog to remind myself and anyone who finds it, and two, speak to my Facebook friends who are entrepreneurs: do not despise small beginnings. Everything has to start somewhere.

God Bless The Entrepreneur.

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