"Pressure and Time Make a Diamond Shine" A Year ago when I started this journey of stepping out on my own to start my own company, I never could have imaged the difficulties and obstacles that I would soon face. The partnership agreement that I signed only covered 40k and my business partner has since stopped paying the salary and we have not finished the website or app thought he developers that we had hired. Basically, I am in a far worse off position than when I started,