I was in Puerto Rico on a Saturday morning. Waterfall on the weekend plan. Phone buzzing with a question only I could answer.

That buzz told me everything I needed to know about where my business actually was.

In Episode 64 of First in Market, Jay Awal breaks down the one test that shows whether you built a business or just built yourself a new job.

Right now, a lot of people are working hard and calling it building. They are the first one in and the last one out. They answer every message. They make every call. They fix every problem. And they call that hustle. But there is a real difference between working hard and building something that works. The two feel identical from the inside. The results look very different from the outside over time.

This episode walks through the Dependency Test, a three-question check that sh ...