jasonglaspey

I would encourage you to look around before deciding on Pulley. While I haven't used them in a while, when I did I was really blown away by how little support, features, and service they provided. It felt very half-assed and very slow to grow. I emailed them once about something and they seemed annoyed that I'd have a feature request. I left immediately after that, and that's when I went to Gumroad. Been happy there since. However, should I launch something new, I'll definitely look at SendOwl

I've been running my own companies with employees and contractors for over 6 years, and that's after over a decade in my industry working in several different types of companies with different roles.

The reason I'm asking is that I find that people, often running younger, smaller businesses, can really be impacted by internal demons, and I'm doing some research to find out what those are, how people with more experience monitor themselves and what barometer they use to see how they're doing.

I'd love to see some resources for people who find themselves in a role of managing a team (or teams) of people when they haven't had the luxury of decades of experience.

If you have an "idea" person, you're screwed. You need a product person. I don't know how to code, but I can help with wireframes, customer interviews, feedback, marketing plans, pricing strategies, partnership opportunities, etc. The very idea of an "Idea Person" needs to go away and people need to be accountable to providing value. And you don't need an MVP for the Product Person to start working. And I use that term very loosely. Because if they aren't building the product, they should be supporting/defining/selling it.

Actually, that's not true at all. I personally am a non-programmer, who've hired people to write my code for me, and built a successful company that now employs many people. I wish I had a technical co-founder, for all the reasons mentioned in this article, but most importantly, that technical solutions would be solved by someone invested in the company and from their domain of knowledge. As it is, I have to come up with solutions and ask my for-hire freelance developer to code it for me. It's been successful, but it could be so much more.

But, this in no way means that a non-programmer can't go it alone. I have, and am now doing it. And in the case of the lone programmer building something entirely alone and making a million dollars, what's to say he wouldn't have made $4 million dollars had he a non-technical co-founder?

I think your line of reasoning is equally as incorrect as you're implying the OP's was.

I was having a similar conversation with a friend of mine the other day, and I think what PG pointed out was really poignant, that content doesn't have to be movies and TV shows.

I do like the occasional movie, or TV show, but I don't need nearly as much as I used to. With Netflix and Hulu and YouTube, I don't have to wait for new content, just new to me. And there's plenty of legacy content to keep us happy if we really require a 22 minute sitcom.

It's because the Honey Badger don't give a F@CK!