It’s rare that someone in my feed isn’t making a comment about getting paid. When you take a leap of faith and go independent you’re quickly exposed to managing your own cashflow, yet you have little or no experience. So, I thought I’d tell you a little story about Rita Harris. When we (Phil Cook and I) started our own design agency in 2009 we had little or no idea on how to run a business, let alone how to find and get work. We picked up a job via @LinkedIn and just decided to give the whole thing 3 months, which turned into 6, and it went from there