I've been where you are.

I've built six- and seven-figure businesses from the ground up, and spent two decades in marketing and finance. Now I help other owners do the same — with someone in their corner who's already done it.

Jeremy Farkas, founder of First Mile Advisors

Jeremy Farkas · Enrolled Agent, MBA

Why First Mile exists

Over the years, I've helped a lot of friends with the same situation: they were working for someone else and wanted to start their own business. Every one of them was an expert in their field — a therapist, a lawyer, a physical therapist, a dentist — and not one of them had any business training. Most didn't know the basics of how to get started, let alone the harder parts, like building a real business plan or a system for bringing in customers. A couple had already launched, and things weren't going the way they'd hoped.

Leveraging my experience to help my friends has been incredibly fun and rewarding — and now I'm looking forward to helping many more fellow entrepreneurs.

The first mile is the hardest, and you don't have to run it alone.

Three disciplines, one advisor

Operating

I've launched and run multiple successful businesses from scratch — not advised on them, run them. Every decision I'll ask you to make is one I've made with my own money on the line.

Multiple businesses founded and operated

Marketing

Two decades of it — paid search, local SEO, reviews, direct mail, websites. I ran marketing teams at Amazon and Yelp, and I've done the same work for local businesses spending a tiny fraction of that. I don't hand you a strategy deck and wish you luck. I build the thing and run it.

20+ years · Marketing leadership at Amazon and Yelp

Money & tax

An accounting degree, an MBA, and an Enrolled Agent license. From building your financial model at the start, to planning your taxes through the year, to preparing and filing the returns — it's all handled, and it's all handled by one person.

Enrolled Agent · MBA · B.S. Accounting

What an Enrolled Agent is, and why it matters to you

An Enrolled Agent is federally licensed by the IRS to advise on taxes, prepare returns, and represent taxpayers directly before the IRS — the same representation rights as a CPA or an attorney. Almost no business consultant holds one. It means the person building your pricing model is the same person who understands what it does to your tax bill, and the same person who files your return in April. Nothing gets lost between advisors, because there's only one.

Businesses I've built

Not case studies from a portfolio. Companies I started, funded, staffed, marketed, and ran.

Co-founder

Village Kids Dentistry

Zero to a multimillion-dollar practice

Built from nothing with a practicing pediatric dentist — the location, the buildout, the hiring, the systems, and the marketing that filled the schedule.

Founder

North Seattle Swim School

Over $500K in annual revenue

Founded and operated in a crowded market. Pricing, scheduling, staffing, and the local demand generation that keeps the lessons full.

Founder

Life Force Kiosks

1,000,000+ liters of clean water

A nonprofit I founded in Kenya, built to pay for itself — people bought clean water at a price they could afford, and the revenue kept the kiosks running. I wrote the plan, negotiated the government partnerships, hired and trained the staff, and ran the community marketing. Years in, I handed it to the Kenyan team, and it ran without me.

You had the idea.

Now let's build the business you deserve.

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