For most services-oriented start-ups, there’s never quite enough time, staff or money to go around in the early days. Putting your new customers first is the top priority, but behind the professionally confident façade you’re presenting to them, it can be a major struggle to manage priorities and achieve balance.

Thankfully, service-based start-ups these days can easily locate the additional resources they need in core areas from accounting to data security and back-up, marketing and sales, IT, eCommerce, social media management, project management; [...]