Well, yeah, an entrepreneur can't be shy. Then again, if that was the only personality change one needs to turn from recluse self-proclaimed technical genius to

Well, yeah, an entrepreneur can't be shy. Then again, if that was the only personality change one needs to turn from recluse self-proclaimed technical genius to successful entrepreneur, there would be entrepreneurial psychotherapies. But wouldn't the psychotherapists get rich themselves and not be psychotherapists? more nonsense rambling here You do need a marketing person, no matter how much of a maverick extrovert you are. Marketing is not one of the high arts, but it isn't trivial, and distracts you from focusing on kicking ass. Get a marketing person. Full disclosure: I'm far from being a marketing person. I'm in a consultancy firm working as an econometrician (that's a type of statistician common in this field). I'm the technical guy in a franz ferdinand t-shirt and dorky converse sneakers.