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Every Entrepreneur Needs To Invest In Technology To Take Back Time

I founded Teaching Startup to show you how to do that

Joe Procopio
3 min readMay 14, 2021

Last week, Teaching Startup, my project to make entrepreneurs better by answering their questions, ran a poll asking where automation would best help their businesses. The results sparked an eye-opening discussion.

We have all kinds of different entrepreneurs in Teaching Startup — at all different stages, each with a very unique solution. So as you might imagine, the answers were somewhat all over the place, but not as random as I would have originally thought.

The top answer was not just a plurality but a majority. 55% of respondents want to apply more technology to operations.

“We spend too much time and money focused on internal tasks.”

No matter if your startup is brand new and in the idea-to-reality stage, or well-funded and in the growth or scale stages, the one common thread across all these founders and leaders is that they all desperately need more of one single thing to realize their mission.

Time.

We need time to craft the perfect solution to a painful problem. We need time to implement the functionality and features that customers are…

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Joe Procopio
Joe Procopio

Written by Joe Procopio

I'm a multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. AI pioneer. Technologist. Innovator. I write at Inc.com and BuiltIn.com. More about me at joeprocopio.com

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