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I think that's a really good question. There are (at least) two distinctly different skill sets or personality types essential for a successful entrepreneurial business - one is the thinking-of-new-ideas-and-making-them-work track and the other is the bookkeeping-and-keeping-up-with-routine track. I'm not very good at the second; switching back and forth between coding and bookkeeping makes me want to sit in a corner of a dark room and rock back and forth slowly while reciting Kipling. Some people, though, are really good at the second. I know a few people who manage both and I'm rather in awe of them.

Perhaps there's a third type, too - the guy who goes out and sells the idea, like Jobs to Woz.

How do you solve this problem? What am I doing wrong?



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