I am 23 M, I with my friend started a design and branding agency 2 years ago in college days thinking about let's start a business earn money and get out of rat race, we had our ups and downs, in inital days I used to design brand identity and all the designs (I was good at logo and design creation) but I didn't have any design studies I learnt brand identity and design from internet/self learning, so for the complex works like motion, illustration photo manipulation ( tool requiring Photoshop, after effects or any other tools except illustrator) I had junior designer with me, I directed them to the best for the brands... going good, we used to have our clients from good SEO, we had our clients but one day the seo got corrupted by one intern we stopped having client from web our best place for clients. Parallelly we were working on one startup(idea stage), one other startup like our own startup. Now we are trying to rewamp the website as the seo is already crashed thinking to restart new but I am having second thoughts about continuing it, We stopped having client, the lifestyle is affected, the emi are pending. I am having second thoughts about myself as designer as I don't much deeper in design too. I am making one venture capital firm for one of my friends but it's in idea phase, we are still learning about these things. See I wanna be in a startup place, I don't wanna do a job, one day I will start my own startup, but now when I am not getting client I am confused about how to get my life together, the relationship with my co-founder (more or less it's some how related to starting my own venture too, I don't wanna work with him anymore, it's not like he is bad or something but I feel I am not my 100% having him around, it's like looking at each other face who is gonna do the work, sure I can to the work but I feel the design are done by me, and this a design agency what is left for his is taking business queries and relationships...) also I am not liking how am getting, I wanna have a independent me time where I can take my own decisions. I wanna explore things, I wanna be independent of this all going on currently, I wanna live my life, I wanna learn more deep. I am confused what should I do, I am thinking about working with established design agency but I am not sure if I can a job there. I can also work at some VC firm providing them design and marketing but I am again not sure if I can get a job there. Please suggest something, if you can help me, I would be really grateful. This is my portfolio (all the work is done by me or lead by me) - https://www.behance.net/analogdigisolution Tl; Dr - started a design agency with initial design skills, now feeling I lack knowledge want to learn more staying in startup ecosystem, also having problems with co-founder about decision making, want a independent, exploring life. #startup #design #business