Re:Ask HN: What do founders spend their time on, after their...
by gstar on Sunday November 08, 2009 @12:35PM
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Depends on the business, and what you're doing - but it's more or less:
- Support
- Sales - any number of sales-related things like optimising the sales pipeline or even managing sales staff if you're B2B
- Marketing and PR
- Business - things like dealing with raising money, finance, accounting, trying to negotiate the lawyers fees down, fixing up the license agreement you originally wrote...
- Finding Staff - if you're doing well, you might need to hire. It takes a lot of time up, and it's a huge decision each time.
- Managing staff - this takes a LOT longer than you think it would, i'd say between 40-80% of your time gets taken up by managing staff when you get to 3 staff.
- Support
- Sales - any number of sales-related things like optimising the sales pipeline or even managing sales staff if you're B2B
- Marketing and PR
- Business - things like dealing with raising money, finance, accounting, trying to negotiate the lawyers fees down, fixing up the license agreement you originally wrote...
- Finding Staff - if you're doing well, you might need to hire. It takes a lot of time up, and it's a huge decision each time.
- Managing staff - this takes a LOT longer than you think it would, i'd say between 40-80% of your time gets taken up by managing staff when you get to 3 staff.
- Product development if you're lucky