I’ve spent the last 10 years growing a very successful service based business from the ground up, on my own. I had no help. I had an idea, I did the research and I made it happen. I’m in the process of closing that business so I can concentrate on a new project. My staff are now hounding me for information about how I run my business so they can start their own. I’m all for helping other people become small business owners but I’m so annoyed by this. Am I wrong? They want me to walk them through how to start an LLC, they want to see my contracts, invoices and pricing guides. They text me with a million questions at all hours. It feels like they just want to take all the work I did and clone/copy it and it’s pissing me off. Do it yourself! Ask Google! I never once asked them to do work for me for free. So why do I feel like the asshole when I don’t want to just give away all my hard work for free?! How do I say no without sounding like a jerk?