You must read these books before starting a one-person business

Baer Lanfried
4 min readJun 8, 2024

Solopreneurship requires you to be efficient and know when to make certain decisions.

If your business grows and you haven’t optimized early on, then you will slowly drown.

To combat any potential inefficiency, you need to know what you’re up against.

You need to prepare by:

  • Automating as much as possible
  • Creating processes which handle any type of situation.
  • Being aware of any potential roadblock you might come up against.
  • Creating a business model that is aligned with your longterm goals.
  • Creating SOPs (standard operating procedures) at every step of the way.
  • Building a business fortress which can immediately scale when the need hits.

To be prepared you need to firstly develop a “Business Mindset”.

More importantly, you need to develop a “Solopreneur Mindset”.

To do this, you should know how to:

  • Lessen your workload overtime.
  • Know about common problems before they happen.
  • Prevent yourself from creating an inefficient business.
  • Survive as a one-person business by building systems and automations from the get-go.

The following books will ensure you do all these things.

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Baer Lanfried

Philosopher, Teacher, and Solopreneur. All about Connection with self and others.