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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Oct 2017
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    Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Stephanie Hurlburt

    Small software businesses are 10% software, 90% everything else. If you want to spend ~90% of your time coding, you want to work for someonehttps://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/922265246684798976 …

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    Stephanie Hurlburt @sehurlburt
    Something people don’t realize about running a software business like mine: Right now, we don’t need to focus on coding, or code at all.
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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Oct 2017
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        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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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Oct 2017
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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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      4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Oct 2017
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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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      5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Oct 2017
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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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      6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Oct 2017
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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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      7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Oct 2017
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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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      8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 22 Oct 2017
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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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      1. Danger Casey‏ @CaseySoftware 22 Oct 2017
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        Replying to @patio11

        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 

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      2. Garrett Dimon‏ @garrettdimon 23 Oct 2017
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        Replying to @patio11

        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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      3. Joel  ⛈‏ @jhooks 23 Oct 2017
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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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