I’ve been working from home for about 1,5 months now. At first it felt really odd having to stay at home the whole day and not leave the house, but I’ve learned to live with this in a way that it feels pretty natural. I take occasional breaks and walks outside to clear my head. Not only would I need those working at an office as well, because I’ve found that I’m pretty productive working on my own.

However, I wanted to jot down some thoughts I’ve had in these 1,5 months on entrepreneurship and being in charge of every little aspect of your company. I also have to state that I’ve been the demon at ArcticStartup that argues, sometimes to the point of ridicule, to keep our costs down so we don’t use many external services to run our business. The only business service we use is a professional book keeper and all they do is the bare minimum of keeping our books in their proper order. So outside the domain of keeping our books sorted out, I take care of everything else there is to running a business.

While this may not sound like a very big thing, I do believe there is a larger question behind all this. When you’re forced to put your hands down and go through everything there is to know about running a business from taxes, government agencies, paying salaries to insurance and all the other stuff that there is – only then do you begin to understand the wrath of things you need to be on top to be successful. While it does not make any sense to do these things your self all the way to the multinational -company size – I believe it makes a lot of sense so that you understand how these things work together. Not to forget, there’s a lot of variety in each day.

The reason is pretty simple as well, when you understand the ins and outs of the machine completely you’re running, only then are you able to take well calculated risks and push the machine itself to the edge to take the most out of the opportunity you have at hand. That’s something I’m really looking forwards to, taking this machine called ArcticStartup for the ride of my lifetime.