What r/Entrepreneur keeps coming back to
Complaints raised here by more than one person. One-off posts are not included.
30 recurring problems · 77 threads read · read since September 2026 · Reddit
Raised more than once here
Most people first.
- 72How to stop letting accounting stress ruin my life?“My panic attacks peaked when I answered every Slack pings at 2 AM.”
- 27how do I get my first client?“I would appreciate any suggestions on how I can reach potential prospect clients to pitch my services to.”
- 24How to handle the financial and identity drop after leaving a career“What has been insane is the lifestyle freefall.”
- 21Why is project management just doing admin and updating trackers?“spent two hours this week on an invoice formatting issue. two hours. on formatting.”
- 9Why are restaurant and cafe startup costs so high?“Dont overcapitalise, i spent like 300k building a very fancy restaurant about 1.5hrs away from Sydney, Australia......i would of been better off to use that 300k to rent a little tiny whole in the wall shop in Sydney CBD and whack a 20k coffee machine in it.”
- 8How to figure out what product to sell online“The hardest part of starting my entrepreneurial journey is that I have limited skills and zero connections. I'm a software developer, and that's the only thing I know, so I have a hard time coming up with good ideas”
- 8How do you manage money across multiple countries and currencies?“Customers paying from one country, suppliers in another, contractors somewhere else, then different currencies and accounts on top of that. None of it is individually that complicated, but once you’re dealing with all of it at the same time, it gets messy pretty fast.”
- 6How to quit a corporate job to start your own business“Putting in my two weeks notice on Tuesday. May end up being a bad decision, but I’m ready to either succeed or fail with the only person to blame being myself.”
- 6How do technical founders actually sell their product?“I build, I don't sell.”
- 5How do I stop my business from depending entirely on me?“Now I have 7 people depending on me for their livelihoods, and I've never felt more trapped.”
- 5How to find reliable staff for a food business“Hard time hiring 6-7 guys per month, in an industry where barely anyone is experienced.”
- 4Do tax write-offs mean you get free stuff or money back?“There are a certain amount of people who don't understand what "write offs" are to begin with though- there's people out there who genuinely think that anything you declare as a write off is reimbursed entirely”
- 4Why do prospects go quiet after asking for pricing or portfolios?“My last cold email campaign had strong top-of-funnel numbers, but I can't get people over the finish line.”
- 4Why do small businesses miss incoming phone calls?“Our front desk person is stretched really thin and we miss calls pretty regularly.”
- 4Why am I so terrified to start my own business?“Has anyone else been kinda scared of success?”
- 3What to do before launching a product when you are scared“I want to make my first step into product development, but I always get kinda scared once it’s “done”, because then i’m like “now what”.”
- 3Why did my competitor change their prices?“the difficult part is that from the outside, you usually only see the result, not what caused it”
- 3How to rebuild an emergency fund while supporting family and student loans“Can't get ahead to start again.”
- 3Why is sales forecasting always so inaccurate?“Past that I'm blind. The two closing weren't the ones I had pegged as sure things, and a couple I felt good about went quiet.”
- 3Coworker taking credit for my work“everyone brushed it off too risky, not scalable, and apparently I’m too “junior” to handle it lol so I just stayed quiet”
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