Caruana D: Delaying government contracting cost $880K annually over seven years
Caruana D · She Duplicated Herself 5 Times Without Working More Hours · Jun 4, 2024 · at 35:46
Government contracting strategist Caruana D discusses the opportunity cost of discovering and entering government procurement later in her entrepreneurial journey.
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“The biggest, the most expensive decision that I never made was not learning about contracts earlier, like literally, because like all of those years that I was struggling at 20,030 thousand dollars, I could have been making a million dollars a year. So it was costing me about 880,000 dollars a year for that seven year period that I was not doing that. So you do, you multiply that together. That's multiple millions of dollars that was on the table that I actually left on the table.”
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