Since you've read my previous post you understand the delicate tension between do it yourself and having a big team around you. Since you are such an entrepreneurial rouge, though, you're thinking you can figure it all out yourself.
Even so, it helps to surround yourself with experienced advisors. These are the people who can tell you what parts of an income statement an investor looks at, why your financial model is completely harebrained, current market expectations for similar products, trends in your industry. Basically, you want a group of people who understands the strategic aspects of running a business
In addition, you need to network and surround yourself with peers. These are the folks who make the day to day stuff easier because they've all done what you are doing now. They can help with setting fair employee compensation, recommending good vendors, advising in HR disputes, the time of day to go get a business license. Basically your peers will help turn the dozens of projects you need to do in a week into a manageable set of work. Not to mention this is the group of people that you end up playing poker with. So get to work!
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