Interesting concept. I started my company as a self-funded/bootstrap system. We did consulting for the first 10 months and were very successful and got our comp

Interesting concept. I started my company as a self-funded/bootstrap system. We did consulting for the first 10 months and were very successful and got our company honed to a very solid level not only financially, but conceptually as well. We were able to come up with a lot of development methodologies and standards that were in a sense a "warmup" for what we plan to do in the future. However, I am glad that I spent the last 10 months mostly working for other people? No. As of today, we no longer do any consulting and are moving forward with our first product development title that we plan to launch in the first quarter of 2009. Honestly, I felt like the consulting held me back, and if I had to do it over, I'd probably limit my company's involvement with outside consulting to maybe 20%. You'll waste a lot of time not focusing on the goals of your business. Its pretty idealistic to think you can run two companies at once, its hard enough making sure you do a great job with one, unless you are MAJOR balling and can hire essentially an entirely different staff, you'll end up dropping one of the balls.