The Transition from Employment to Entrepreneurship

“How do I make the leap from my current job to the business I want to start? I can’t afford to just quit working, and my new business will take several months to make a profit.”
I hear this type of question quite often. For many entrepreneurs the transition from their current job to their new business becomes a real challenge. For some start-ups, there is no option beyond a clean break. The entrepreneur, for a variety of reasons, cannot keep her current job while starting up the new business.
However, for others, it can be possible to straddle the worlds of employment and entrepreneurship long enough to make the financial pressures more manageable. StartupJournal has a profile of an entrepreneur who was able to make a relatively smooth transition.