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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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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I definitely settled for a while into a routine where I'd code for two days, then biz for three, rinse, repeat.
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And 1 of the biggest pain points for someone coming from a majority coding bckgrnd is knowing how/where to effectively spend that 90% time.
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