1. Your next step is to hire someone to develop business and manage relationships. You need a COO or president. Of course, you will then be expected to provide a great deal of leadership and vision, but you might have time to code again.

2, 3) Accomplishment may elude you until you build a product if that's what you really want to do. Best advice is to treat it like a client and find room for it.

4. Again, this points to your wanting a product. There's no way to get non-linear with a consultancy. Even a fat retainer is linear because staff has to service it (or it's so automated it's basically a product.) Also, as you keep growing you'll be able to choose better projects.

5. In general, or is this the project again? Regardless this is a good reason to start trying to land a good COO who is passionate.

As you can tell, I believe you are giving up too easily, and I think you should press forward to remove the business side of service consulting from your daily work by removing yourself from the daily business development work, and removing service consulting from your company's work by developing products. Hope it goes well.

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