My Biggest Regret After Starting 7 Businesses

I have learned a lot from my 20 plus years in entrepreneurship.

Even though I started seven businesses, some of which reached seven and eight-figures, the truth is that my partners and I couldn’t have done it without this one thing.

It accelerated our growth by years and saved us millions of dollars.

Feras Alhlou

Feras has founded, grown, and sold businesses in Silicon Valley and abroad, scaling them from zero revenue to 7 and 8 figures. In 2019, he sold e-Nor, a digital marketing consulting company, to dentsu (a top-5 global media company). Feras has served as an advisor to 150+ other new startup businesses, and in his current venture, Start Up With Feras, he's on a mission to help entrepreneurs in the consulting and services space start and grow their businesses smarter and stronger.

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