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The Floundering Founder: 24 Lessons to Refocus Your Business and Better Yourself
Do you ever feel like you’re drowning in your own success?
Expertise-based entrepreneurs are excellent at what they do, but that doesn't mean it’s easy to manage a growing service business.
Juggling constant client demands against the need to focus on growth can be a real struggle. It's an all-consuming journey that can feel suffocating, making it hard to find time to step back and evaluate, both for yourself and your company.
With quick, simple clarity, The Floundering Founder can help you reengineer your business—and your life—for long-term success. In twenty-four bite-sized lessons that fit any schedule, you’ll learn to navigate forward with renewed intentionality and purpose.
The Floundering Founder collects the essential tools and learnings that can have the greatest impact—the ones Raman wished he had known before learning them the hard way.
Pick up The Floundering Founder today and discover the pivotal habits that can grow your business while simplifying your life.
Expertise-based entrepreneurs are excellent at what they do, but that doesn't mean it’s easy to manage a growing service business.
Juggling constant client demands against the need to focus on growth can be a real struggle. It's an all-consuming journey that can feel suffocating, making it hard to find time to step back and evaluate, both for yourself and your company.
With quick, simple clarity, The Floundering Founder can help you reengineer your business—and your life—for long-term success. In twenty-four bite-sized lessons that fit any schedule, you’ll learn to navigate forward with renewed intentionality and purpose.
The Floundering Founder collects the essential tools and learnings that can have the greatest impact—the ones Raman wished he had known before learning them the hard way.
Pick up The Floundering Founder today and discover the pivotal habits that can grow your business while simplifying your life.
226 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 25, 2022
About the author
Raman Sehgal
1 bookI became an author to help entrepreneurs snap out of autopilot and overcome that floundering feeling. Rather than shouldering those emotions of frustration, disorientation, and uncertainty on your own, you now have a guide in me. It’s my genuine honour to share my mistakes and learnings to help you on your journey.
I was an ordinary kid like billions all over the world. An average C-grade student who graduated into a normal entry-level job. Loud, outgoing, and personable, yes. Beyond that, just like everyone else. But with spiky hair, a sizeable nose, and a loud voice for a little fella. Oh, and it turned out that I had a little entrepreneurial streak that never dawned on me until years later.
Fast forward a few years, and I became an accidental agency owner. In 2009, after a few different roles, I founded a marketing company called ramarketing.
So, with just a single client and my tiny dining table, I got to work. It was a side-gig, done in my spare time alongside my day job as head of marketing for a pharmaceutical contract manufacturing organisation.
No fancy start-up story. No fundraising. No aha moment. Simply an opportunity, which I’m glad I didn’t pass.
Along with the success I’ve been fortunate to enjoy in business, I’ve worked to become a published author, podcaster, international keynote speaker, blogger, guest university lecturer, and marathon runner. I travel all over the world for work and have built a pretty decent international network. I’m also very happily married with three amazing kids. I have a home in Newcastle, UK and Boston, US.
People seem to see me as pretty successful—whatever that means. Some think this all happened overnight. And that could not be further from the truth. None of it happened by accident. Any successes I’ve enjoyed took serious work within my business and within myself. These days, I get to share my mistakes and learnings to help you on your journey to greatness.
I was an ordinary kid like billions all over the world. An average C-grade student who graduated into a normal entry-level job. Loud, outgoing, and personable, yes. Beyond that, just like everyone else. But with spiky hair, a sizeable nose, and a loud voice for a little fella. Oh, and it turned out that I had a little entrepreneurial streak that never dawned on me until years later.
Fast forward a few years, and I became an accidental agency owner. In 2009, after a few different roles, I founded a marketing company called ramarketing.
So, with just a single client and my tiny dining table, I got to work. It was a side-gig, done in my spare time alongside my day job as head of marketing for a pharmaceutical contract manufacturing organisation.
No fancy start-up story. No fundraising. No aha moment. Simply an opportunity, which I’m glad I didn’t pass.
Along with the success I’ve been fortunate to enjoy in business, I’ve worked to become a published author, podcaster, international keynote speaker, blogger, guest university lecturer, and marathon runner. I travel all over the world for work and have built a pretty decent international network. I’m also very happily married with three amazing kids. I have a home in Newcastle, UK and Boston, US.
People seem to see me as pretty successful—whatever that means. Some think this all happened overnight. And that could not be further from the truth. None of it happened by accident. Any successes I’ve enjoyed took serious work within my business and within myself. These days, I get to share my mistakes and learnings to help you on your journey to greatness.
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July 26, 2022
A quick insightful read for founders and leaders.
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