Kelly Bub Smith of Dotted Lines: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Launched My Business or Startup

Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?

I’d always been a great student, so law school seemed like a natural path for me coming out of my undergraduate degree. I started my career at a prestigious big firm which was an incredible experience and an opportunity for me to be exposed to many sophisticated legal issues in a short period of time. However, since I was a young girl, I had always had a very entrepreneurial heart, so law firm life felt like something was “missing” for me. I left the law firm to work for a collection of entrepreneurial companies, which was an incredible fit and gave me the opportunity to learn the way things worked in the “real world.” However, I still very much desired to have ownership over my own company at some point in the future.