Certainly, I agree (I'm the author of the linked blog, I didn't even realize someone had posted it here). Those are all things I'm working on in parallel and w

Certainly, I agree (I'm the author of the linked blog, I didn't even realize someone had posted it here). Those are all things I'm working on in parallel and want to be more careful to take some time to do right, so I've been talking to a number of people I know who've started businesses to get their feedback. What impressed me was that it's so easy and fast (compared to, say, 7 years ago when I last did consulting) to set up all of the medium-priority operational items on the cloud, without committing to long-term contracts or needing to buy server hardware or install my own software. And while I'm sure everyone in the audience of this site knows all about Google Apps and so on, I still meet many small businesses who think Outlook, Exchange, Quickbooks, a dedicated phone system, and an office lease is "the way" you have to start a business.