Source: University of St.Thomas

First Friday: Words of Wisdom From the Entrepreneurial Journey

February 7th, 2023

Hampton and his co-founders learned early on that adding people, even though that requires training investment, would be needed in order to scale the business.

“If you keep trying to do it yourself because you don’t want to train people, you’re never going to get there,” Hampton said. “There is so much work to be done by us founders that it seemed like we would never stop. If we didn’t take the time to find the people to help us scale, we wouldn’t be able to do it.”

“We have a huge village supporting us at TurnSignl. Part of it is that people get behind us because of the mission,” Hampton said. Referring to the co-founders’ backgrounds, Hampton added, “We were not entrepreneurs in any sense of the word.”However, the TurnSignl team learned many best practices of entrepreneurs and made many connections by working out of the Twin Ignition Startup Garage coworking space.