Nate Foreman admittedly knew next to nothing about running a business when he started his own home care physical therapy staffing company in 2011. He was just two years out of physical therapy school with $50,000 in school loans and only $10,000 to his name. But Foreman had vision: he thought that he could make his mark in the physical therapy sector.
Already trained as a therapist, Foreman was willing to do anything to help his new business grow. He would drive to far-flung suburbs and limit himself to four hours of sleep per night. And although he had never taken a business course in his life, he wasn’t going to let his inexperience as a businessman stop him from building a successful firm.
He threw himself into the world of entrepreneurship and founded Foreman Therapy Services, a Dallas-based startup that would take years of massaging in its own right.
At just 27 years old, Foreman was living in his one-bedroom Dallas apartment, working two jobs to pay off his student loans. Then he leaped.
“It was quite a gamble,” said Foreman, 32, who can now laugh at the challenges he’s overcome. “But I know I’m capable, and I’m willing to take the risk. So I just jumped.”
The risk started out like an injury to one of his patients – painful with progress coming slowly. But eventually, under the care of Foreman, conditions improved, and the company was soon on its feet, tallying $30,000 in revenue its first partial year and ballooning to $1 million in its second year, Foreman’s first full year in business.
Date: December 20, 2015