The biggest two sources of everything else were, for me, marketing and sales, but you'll be shocked at how much boring backoffice there is.
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Filing taxes, filling out paperwork, buying insurance policies, moving money around, non-sales contract review, etc etc.
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I have a love/hate relationship with the backoffice side of running businesses, which is why I am so enthusiastic about Stripe Atlas.
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As much as I love accumulating trivia about fractally complex subjects like e.g. the Japanese tax regime, one shouldn't need to know it.
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Everyone writes software using abstraction over lower layers but business owners are basically forced to dive into the weeds, constantly.
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If I sent email like I did taxes it would be *knuckle crack* TCP/IP and assembly, and I don't think that's because I did them suboptimally.
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"Don't you have an accountant?" Yeah even if you have an accountant to understand your accountant's API you have to become halfway decent.
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Exactly. The steps to turn a project into an product are rarely code.. I cover some in "projects are not products"http://j.mp/2vT67yD
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Biggest lesson in hindsight is to design the business to automate or outsource as much non-core work as possible as quickly as possible.
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We did this with egghead from day one which allowed me to focus on coding the platform. Hiring design and dev team has shifted my attention.
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