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Couldn't have been said better.

I'd like to add: if you find the time, try to have a side-project on your own time where you apply all these cool new things you were looking to apply in your company. This will help you keep your sanity and it will let you experiment with that technology so that you can make a better informed decision on wether to implement it in your company or not.

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This, absolutely. And if you're not willing to spend your free time learning, then you're probably not really tuned in to be a business man either.

Yeah you can make a good business. Yeah you can make a living. But you're probably not going to make a unicorn.

And yet, 99% of founders out there don't care about building a unicorn. It's just a handful in silicon valley doing anything they can to be the next big thing.

Most entrepreneurs are happy building a good product that helps their customers while making a good living at it.

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