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You’re Not Doing Enough?. Maybe you’re doing too much. | by Maya Sayvanova | The Startup | Aug, 2025

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Most solopreneurs walk around with a low-grade guilt:

I’m not doing enough. Everyone’s better than me.

So you listen to the advice of the big guys and you:

  • Launch a community.
  • Offer live check-ins.
  • Promise lightning-fast delivery on physical products.
  • Say your services are data-driven — when you haven’t even seen a Google Analytics dashboard in your life.

For a moment, it feels like you’re “playing the game.” You’re ticking the right boxes.

Until you realize… You’re selling things you don’t even want to sell — and setting yourself and your clients up for disappointment.

  • A “community” turns into a ghost town.
  • Your “fast delivery” slips into delays.
  • The client asks to see the actual data behind your data-driven services.
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You feel like a jerk for not delivering what you promised, but the truth is:
You never had the…

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