Knife Sharpening Service

2 Tips For Starting A Successful Knife Sharpening Service (2025)

Updated: April 14th, 2025

Want to start your own knife sharpening service? Here are some tips you should know:

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a knife sharpening service:

#1: Marc Lickfett, founder of Knife Aid:

We chatted with with Marc, founder of Knife Aid ($200K/month). In our interview, Marc says:

Entrepreneurs need to make tough life or death kind of decisions quickly, based on limited data and often without hard facts.

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#2: Marc Lickfett, founder of Knife Aid:

We chatted with with Marc, founder of Knife Aid ($200K/month). In our interview, Marc says:

The biggest mistake that entrepreneurs make, myself included, is looking too much at the details and not the bigger picture. You can get caught up on every single minor detail and lose sight of what’s on the horizon.

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