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Married Type-A co-founders cannot have hierarchical reporting structures
“As a married couple running a business together where you, you're both alpha dogs, A-type personalities, you cannot work in an environment where one person is submissive to the other person. You have to work in linear types of relationships where both people h…”
Spousal co-founders must strictly bar work talk outside of work hours
“Even when you go out, you can't help but bring the business into conversations. That's what really, in my opinion, starts kind of creeping in where you have to maintain really strict boundaries as to keeping it out. Because at one point you look back and you'r…”
Nellie Akalp's first business reached nearly $1M in monthly gross revenue
“We grew that company to where it was nearly doing a million dollars in gross sales revenues per month.”
Nellie Akalp advised businesses for free while under a non-compete agreement
“I would find myself sitting at people's businesses, helping them build their businesses free. Of charge because I couldn't charge them because I was under a non-compete.”
Spousal business success hinges on dividing roles into visionary and executor
“And I think that's really where the magic happens is that he's more the idea guy. He's more the visionary. I'm the one who executes on his ideas because of my background in operations and sales and marketing. It's a really, really good partnership.”
CorpNet tested Nellie Akalp's marriage far more than her first company
“And with the first company, I don't even really think we work that hard. The business kind of grew itself to the point where then the acquisition happened. So in my opinion, really where I saw most of my efforts, most of his efforts, most of the struggles, and…”