Running a brewery ends up being more about running a business than actually brewing...
Every corp ends up being much more intensive in the administrative side once the process or product has been standardized or reached a stable version. Isn't this the case for most businesses, including tech?
A lot of startup founders, including myself, fall in love with the idea of building technology -- but quickly learn founders are usually required to be great salespeople more than great technologists.
It's not just about literally selling the product. It's more about selling the company vision to employees, convincing investors, delivering talks and arranging interviews, which are really just high-level sales pitches. For example, Steve Jobs spent a huge amount of his time on preparing and rehearsing his keynotes.
Yep. Any and every kind of small business is a business first.
I figured that out from doing photography. People are like "wow you take good pictures you should be a photographer." They never go "wow you love working long hours and doing paperwork, you should start a business!"
Yes. If it's a business (as opposed to, say, a hobby), success lies in being good at the administrative side. Even something that's kinda both like Linux: every interview I've read with Linus T in the last decade or two he makes it very clear he spends virtually all of his time managing administrative tasks.
Every corp ends up being much more intensive in the administrative side once the process or product has been standardized or reached a stable version. Isn't this the case for most businesses, including tech?