Remote work gets rid of the daily drudge and can help business to grow rapidly

Almost three years on, Andrew Morrison has learnt valuable lessons about entrepreneurship

Inever set out to be an entrepreneur. I thought they were people who invented things and built a business from their creativity.

And yet, it seems that I am, after all, an entrepreneur. How so?

I had grown somewhat tired of the daily commute to work and some of the vagaries of office life. I wanted to be in control of decisionmaking and see where that took me. I took a risk in October 2014, and chose to leave a well-paid job with one of the UK’S largest companies to start a business from scratch. I had developed sufficient expertise in the bidding and tender processes – something many businesses find complex, time-consuming and outside of their skill set, to give me some confidence that I could make a success of it. My vision was for a 21st-century working environment – remote working, cloud-based information sharing and communication systems, some work in client offices when needed and in trains/ coffee shops. Almost three years on, what am I learning about entrepreneurship along the journey?

I’ve found that hiring people who want to work in this modern environment has been important – it doesn’t suit everyone. And what was certainly under-estimated was the sheer amount of hard work involved in running a business, and the many different skills that the modern business owner needs to quickly master. But nothing beats working your network and receiving or eliciting referrals. Great work for clients produces the reward of