Business notes
Notes for people building a company.
Company roles, a job and a business at the same time, a site people can actually find, and the systems the work runs on.
You can own the company and still not run it.
A shareholder owns a piece of the company. A director is trusted to manage it. The law treats those roles differently.
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Nobody said a 9-to-5 cancels your company.
South African law does not ban an employee from owning a business. The stop sign, when there is one, is usually in the employment contract.
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A website that looks finished can still be invisible.
Search, a landing page with one job, and campaigns that land on a page saying the same thing as the ad.
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If the work lives in five spreadsheets, you do not have a system.
Facilities, a building site, and the office lose the thread the same way: the work is written down in too many places.
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