Comments on: Advice for the budding inventor http://squid-labs.com/blog/?p=16 Squid Labs Blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:24:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Tom Collins http://squid-labs.com/blog/?p=16#comment-5 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:44:12 +0000 http://squid-labs.com/blog/?p=16#comment-5 Dan is serious when he says you'll spend 80% of your time on entrepreneurship. Any time you consider going into business for yourself, do so because you want to become an entrepreneur, not because you want to do what your business does. You'll be disappointed to find that you spend very little time writing code/inventing/baking cakes/etc. Most of your time will be spent finding customers, marketing your product, closing sales, getting paid, paying bills, or managing people to do those things. Being an inventor in a larger organization may be frustrating at times, but unless you want to wear all the hats, it's often better than "coming up with a company to do X". Dan is serious when he says you’ll spend 80% of your time on entrepreneurship. Any time you consider going into business for yourself, do so because you want to become an entrepreneur, not because you want to do what your business does.

You’ll be disappointed to find that you spend very little time writing code/inventing/baking cakes/etc. Most of your time will be spent finding customers, marketing your product, closing sales, getting paid, paying bills, or managing people to do those things.

Being an inventor in a larger organization may be frustrating at times, but unless you want to wear all the hats, it’s often better than “coming up with a company to do X”.

]]> by: Ty http://squid-labs.com/blog/?p=16#comment-4 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:36:22 +0000 http://squid-labs.com/blog/?p=16#comment-4 Beautiful Beautiful

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