126 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 18 Jan 2023 \ parent \ on: What are you working on this week? bitcoin
The secret is to just rip off the business bandaid, show up for it whenever necessary, then switch back to building as soon as you can. Spend the minimally viable amount of time there.
I eventually learned to batch meetings. They're maybe slightly less productive batched, but way more focus-efficient.
It also helps to admit to people exactly where you are with stuff. "I have no idea what I'm doing ... it's my first time" - I said to every pre-seed investor, to my accountant, to the designers I've contracted. If they are trustworthy, they'll fill you in and help you along. If they try to take advantage of you, cut them out.
It allows you prep minimally - mostly just understanding what someone abusing you in a certain context looks like - then showing up and paying attention.
How do you solve the whole admin side? creating a company, taxes, payroll, etc?, just paying someone to do all of that?
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Oh there's lot of great tooling now for creating a company (angellist stack, stripe atlas, etc etc) and doing payroll (gusto). I'm paying corporate taxes for the first time and hired an accountant. Although it seems there's no easy solve for bookkeeping/labelling expenses - only I know what I spent the money on. I had a lawyer create an option pool.
Most of this legal business stuff is the worst though. Governments have terrible UX, but its bad enough industries have formed to make it easier.
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