Work Life Balance: Small Business

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The hustle and bustle of today’s business culture is not for the faint of heart.  The ability to rapidly increase the size and output of your business online through the internet, software services, and business consultation, is astounding, resulting in results, that result in big businesses.  But what if there was a different way?  Silicon Valley entrepreneur tech mogul, William Schalt, thinks there could be a new way to do business entirely.  He calls it, Small Business™. 

“When I first started talking about Small Business™, I was just totally burnt out from the corporate world, I had millions of dollars and didn’t know what to do with it, I literally lived on caffeine, I never got outside, and I was the envy of everyone who makes less than 100k, but then I thought, hey wait a minute, what if I did less?”  Schalt says what happened changed his life and now he’s never going back. 

“I just started thinking smaller.  Instead of trying to build and scale to my next 100 million, I thought, what if I knew every customer that used my product, by name?  What if I worked less, closed when I wanted, made less money, and took a lot of walks?  What if I worked with just my family instead of 12,062 employees?  What if I made my business a part of a small city community instead of trying to be a corporate citizen of the globe?  It’s been an absolutely insane experiment this last year, I started a hardware store in a small NorCal town, and I still can’t believe it, but the people around here actually love this thing as much as I do, it’s really incredible.” 

Schalt, says he thinks this Small Business™ idea could catch on in the broader business world, but only if other entrepreneurs are willing to take the risk and use their corporate millions to be small too.