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When Entrepreneurship Becomes Your Cage

I started this business to have more freedom but now I have six employees depending on me and I feel more trapped than I ever did working for someone else.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pursuit of freedom through ownership can paradoxically create new forms of obligation and constraint that feel even more binding.

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