Excerpts of article first appeared on Huffington Post   So I’ve been on the dark side, the deep and desperate dark side of business ownership. I’m a woman and minority owned business so I can attest to the double whammy disadvantage that most women-owned businesses face. Don’t get it? You can begin to understand my frustrations by reading this article here.   I started Social Vibes Media, a digital marketing agency in NJ, with very little entrepreneurship experience or training. I left corporate and thought I was really great at what I did, failing to realize that entrepreneurship is the school of hard knocks.   For the first 1.5 years of business, these were my challenges: I had few to no customers. I worked isolated in my basement office apartment.