One sentence: I love programming. If as an entrepreneur (i.e., a company founder; being an employee at a startup -- which, by the way, is great -- is not the sa

One sentence: I love programming. If as an entrepreneur (i.e., a company founder; being an employee at a startup -- which, by the way, is great -- is not the same) I spend the same percentage of my time programming as I do when working as a software engineer, I'm almost guaranteed to fail. Software needs to not only be built and tested: it needs to solve a problem actual users have, be marketed, sold and be supported. A polished commercial product can't always be built by a one man team, so I'll likely need to spend my time recruiting others and raising money to pay them. That said, I'm not against entrepreneurship: it's a means to an end. If the best way to bring a particular product to the market is through going on my own (and I've felt that way at multiple points in my career), I'll do what it takes. However, I have no interest in entrepreneurship for money's, status' or its own sake.