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Coming up on a DECADE since starting Fresh Tape Media, we’ve had a ton of success…but I’ve made plenty of mistakes. Here are my top 10 (so you don’t make them yourself): 1) Trying to do too much manually in year 1. Best example of that was my books/accounting. I wish I had been using Quickbooks advanced since the start and been able to track margin on every project with it. LET TECH DO ITS JOB. 2) The obvious one…wasn’t aggressive enough on collections. Doing work and expecting to get paid is normal. But when clients are late, I wish we had hounded them sooner. Can’t be a people pleaser/worry about what people think as much when it comes to getting what you’re owed. 3) Not tracking inventory early and often enough. We’re not a CPG company, but we have a ton of gear and props and whatnot. I wish we had consistently tracked it from the start. 4) I made bets but didn’t “know when to fold em”. We tried to invent a clear plexiglass ball to hold a 360 camera, and between durability is...

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