As the company grows, things will only get worse from here in each dimension.
Still, if the company doesn’t expand, then it will never be much of a company, so the challenge is to grow and degrade as slowly as possible.
Big Truth, Big Fallacy, and the important thing to take away from the article, all crammed into that single column inch.
The author looks at his data and surmises that you should grow slowly. I look at it and surmise that you should simply not grow.
With a little time and effort, you can get a software company ticking away, bringing in a nice pile of money every year and no-longer imposing itself on your time. Over time, you can keep tweaking the income higher or the time-demand lower (or both) by adjusting the 3rd parameter, which is Quality of Life.
As soon as you start adding employees into the mix, it gets harder to keep that balance shifted so heavily in your favor.
Still, if the company doesn’t expand, then it will never be much of a company, so the challenge is to grow and degrade as slowly as possible.
Big Truth, Big Fallacy, and the important thing to take away from the article, all crammed into that single column inch.
The author looks at his data and surmises that you should grow slowly. I look at it and surmise that you should simply not grow.
With a little time and effort, you can get a software company ticking away, bringing in a nice pile of money every year and no-longer imposing itself on your time. Over time, you can keep tweaking the income higher or the time-demand lower (or both) by adjusting the 3rd parameter, which is Quality of Life.
As soon as you start adding employees into the mix, it gets harder to keep that balance shifted so heavily in your favor.