10 years in…what next

you may try Clarkhoward.com

This is mainly tech start ups ?

Follow your passion. If you have to work side jobs to enable you to pursue your passion, so what? There is dignity in work. I was a custodian for a full year. Even then I learned from it and provided a quality service.

I have a similar sized business, although my take home is less than yours. After being in business for 12 years, I want to sell, so I hired someone to help me (commission based). Mine is a tech business.

You may want to try opening a business line of credit at a bank to tide you over during cash crunches. The rates are competitive, and you can write off the interest. The other option is factoring, (advancing the payment for current contracts) but they usually charge a good amount of interest.

Good luck with whatever you do.

You have a business that is actually making money. For the love of god keep doing what you're doing.

Your. Business. Makes. Money.

The majority of folks on here have crashed and burned, badly. With no cash and no business to even run anymore.

Do whatever you've got to do, trust me. Anyone I talk to that tells me their business is doing well and they have plenty of business - making money I don't care what they do, they are lucky and are onto a good thing.

Starting another business is going to take huge amounts of energy and money. You've done the hard bit already.

Good luck.

It seems to me - as an outsider - that you're either underpaying the field techs or are underestimating the value your business is bringing to your clients. Maybe both.

If the business cannot survive without your personal labor - to me it points toward the latter.

What I'd suggest is to really look hard at your business model and customer base to understand whether you can increase your prices charged - and in so doing, bring in enough employee labor such that you can switch to manager mode as opposed to labor delivery mode. To be explicitly clear: enough employee(s) to replace you vs. an employee that does all that you expect you yourself would do.

You also seem to be saying that you don't believe there is the capability to expand. That may be true in your local market (is it local?), but do similar opportunities exist in other markets further away? If the cut from a single market isn't enough to sustain yourself and your wife as non-delivery contributors, the only option is to try and grow it over a larger base such that the pie from which the cut is being made, becomes larger.

You gross 300, and take 150 for yourself? For real?

If you hate it sell it. First sign your customers into a contract then start shopping the biz. Talk to others in your area about selling. Tell everyone. Have a quick one page showing the business financials. If it's making 150k and you work there you can probably get rid of it for the same or a touch more with no growth.