If you have a new business, it's pretty common to start
thinking about hiring someone to help with the seemingly
endless tasks you are presented with. Don't. Do NOT do it.

Eventually, you will have to hire people,
but try to put it off as long as possible. While you might
think there is an element of sadism involved on my part
there are reasons...

First, you need to be able to present someone with a clearly
delineated job. That's very hard to do in the beginning. In a
start-up, many days end in a blur.
But patterns eventually emerge in your work wherein you
could explain a list of items to another person; you have the
beginning of a job for someone. It takes some time.

Second, by doing things yourself in the beginning you gain a
massive amount of knowledge. That helps in the operation
of any business and it also gives you valuable empathy for
the person you'll eventually have doing those tasks for the
business.

Third, hiring is: easy in, hard out. Searching for your first
"employee" is kind of exhilarating. You meet lots of eager
people ready to make a difference. Then you pick someone,
but sometimes you blow it and pick the wrong person.
If hiring is fun, firing is the opposite. Firing people is a
major buzz killer, The longer you wait, the b
etter delineated
the job will be, and the greater the chance for success in
hiring.

Fourth, hiring people costs money. Unless you have been
massively funded or were born into big money, you'll find
cash has a quick evaporation rate. Employees are helpful, but they are also expensive. Be sure you are absolutely read more at.
http://www.nnamdinemdy.com/2016/02/dont-hire-anybody.html?m=0#links

This is what i needed to read at the right time. I've been battling with this decision for a long time because i felt i needed to leverage on human resources to enable my business grow, I think i need to shelve that idea for now and run everything myself.

lalasticlala, naijacutee, this is front page material for business owners to talk about