Start & Grow a Business

How I Used AI to Grow My Business From 1 to 12 People
How I Used AI to Grow My Business From 1 to 12 People
How I Used AI to Grow My Business | Kim Vu Journey At first, I thought growing a business meant doing more. More clients. More sales. More people. More tasks.... Read more...
What Percentage of First Businesses Fail?
What Percentage of First Businesses Fail?
What Percentage of First Businesses Fail? | Kim Vu Journey You've probably heard it before you even opened your doors: most businesses fail. Someone said it at a dinner party,... Read more...
First Year of Business: What to Expect
First Year of Business: What to Expect
First Year of Business: What to Expect | Kim Vu Journey You started this business feeling ready. Then month two hit, and suddenly nothing felt certain — not your pricing,... Read more...
Signs You're Not Ready to Start a Business
Signs You're Not Ready to Start a Business
Signs You're Not Ready to Start a Business You've rewritten the business plan four times. You've watched a dozen startup videos this week alone. You still haven't posted the offer,... Read more...
How to Start a Business With No Money or Network
How to Start a Business With No Money or Network
How to Start a Business With No Money or Network You have the idea. You've run it through your head a hundred times, in the shower, on the commute, right... Read more...
How Immigrant Founders Build Opportunities Without Existing Connections
How Immigrant Founders Build Opportunities Without Existing Connections
How Immigrant Founders Build Opportunities Without Existing Connections | Kim Vu Journey Starting a business in a new country can feel like starting with half the tools everyone else has.... Read more...
The Mistakes Every First-Time Founder Makes Before They Know Better
The Mistakes Every First-Time Founder Makes Before They Know Better
Starting a business is exciting until you realize that being the founder means making hundreds of decisions you have never had to make before. You may build too quickly, hire... Read more...
Nobody Knows You Yet: How New Founders Build Trust From Zero
Nobody Knows You Yet: How New Founders Build Trust From Zero
Nobody knows you yet. You have no long list of customers, no famous brand name behind you, and probably not enough testimonials to make every new buyer feel completely comfortable.... Read more...
Having an Idea Is Easy. Turning It Into a Business Is the Hard Part.
Having an Idea Is Easy. Turning It Into a Business Is the Hard Part.
Having a business idea can feel exciting, but knowing what to do next is where many first-time founders get stuck. You may have a product in mind, a service you... Read more...
How To Find a Business Opportunity Worth Building
How To Find a Business Opportunity Worth Building
Finding a business idea can feel harder than starting the business itself. You may have skills, experience, or a strong desire to build something, but nothing feels valuable enough to... Read more...
Your First Customer Is More Important Than Your First Product
Your First Customer Is More Important Than Your First Product
You can spend months perfecting a product, redesigning your logo, building a website, and adding features — and still have no one willing to buy. If you are a first-time... Read more...
Before Building Your Business, Make Sure Someone Actually Wants It
Before Building Your Business, Make Sure Someone Actually Wants It
The uncomfortable truth is that your belief in a business idea is not the same as customer demand. That is one of the most expensive mistakes a first-time founder can... Read more...
How to Start a Business When You Have No Idea Where to Begin
How to Start a Business When You Have No Idea Where to Begin
Starting a business can feel overwhelming when you have an idea but no clear next step. You may know you want more freedom, want to solve a problem, or have... Read more...
Honest First-Time Founder's Insights: Everything I Wish I Knew Before Starting My First Business
Honest First-Time Founder's Insights: Everything I Wish I Knew Before Starting My First Business
Starting your first business can feel like freedom and confusion at the same time. You leave a job thinking you are finally in control, then discover that every decision, customer... Read more...
Business Automation Isn't About Doing More. It's About Removing What Slows You Down
Business Automation Isn't About Doing More. It's About Removing What Slows You Down
Many businesses adopt AI and automation because they want to move faster. Then they end up with more tools, more workflows, more notifications, and more things for the team to... Read more...
Building Businesses With AI Tools Efficiently
Building Businesses With AI Tools Efficiently
AI can help a business move faster, but buying more AI tools does not automatically make the business better. In fact, the wrong setup can create more complexity, more subscriptions,... Read more...
How Founders Turn Their Knowledge Into Their Biggest Business Asset
How Founders Turn Their Knowledge Into Their Biggest Business Asset
If everything you know disappears when you step away, you don't really own that knowledge as a company asset. It is sitting inside your memory, scattered across conversations, messages, documents,... Read more...
How to Build an Automated Operating System Before Building a Bigger Company
How to Build an Automated Operating System Before Building a Bigger Company
How to Build an Automated Operating System Before Building a Bigger Company What happens when your business grows faster than your ability to hold it? More customers should feel like... Read more...
How AI Became My Second Brain Instead of Another Tool
How AI Became My Second Brain Instead of Another Tool
For a long time, I was running my business with too much information trapped in my head. Team questions came back to me, decisions depended on what I remembered, and... Read more...
Startup Mistakes: Lessons I Learned From Building a Business
Startup Mistakes: Lessons I Learned From Building a Business
If you are working longer hours while your business grows, hiring people but still carrying every decision, or solving the same problems over and over, you may not have a... Read more...
Why I Closed My First Restaurant and Lost $200K (Kim Vu’s Experience Recovering From Business Failure)
Why I Closed My First Restaurant and Lost $200K (Kim Vu’s Experience Recovering From Business Failure)
If your business has failed and you are wondering whether you can recover, I want to tell you what losing $200K taught me before I tried to build again. I... Read more...
How to Scale a Business Without Breaking It
How to Scale a Business Without Breaking It
More orders, bigger clients, and higher revenue should feel like good news. But when your operations are already stretched, growth can feel like one more thing that might break the... Read more...