'It nearly broke me': Exiting a business is hard to do
By administrator | 13 August 2018
Exiting her business nearly broke Mandi Gunsberger.
"In that last year, for me running and selling a company at the same time were like two full-time jobs," she told Fairfax Media on the sidelines of the Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network in Toronto last month. "I had a nervous breakdown because at certain times of the business, the pressure was so much."
Gunsberger is the founder of parenting website Babyology, which had an estimated turnover of more than $2 million before Gunsberger sold last year to kid's radio station Kinderling for an undisclosed sum.
"You have to keep coming up with ways of making your revenue bigger for buyers," she says. "When you are running a business and raising children you don't even realise you are going at such a fast pace that it becomes normal. My days started at 5am and ended at midnight. I was doing a lot of travel and we had to move house and being offline for two days I couldn't catch up, I had massive anxiety and panic attacks. It nearly broke me."
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Cara Waters - Brisbane Times - 13 Aug 2018
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