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This article seemed to miss what to me has been the biggest change: redefining yourself. If you're like me a lot of your self image is tied up in being a progra

This article seemed to miss what to me has been the biggest change: redefining yourself. If you're like me a lot of your self image is tied up in being a programmer and being very good at it. Being an entrepreneur means giving that up. It means not knowing what the cutting edge is any more, not knowing your way around every library, etc. Worse, it's not like you become a good entrepreneur overnight. So you go from being excellent at one thing to mediocre at many things. That's hard for a lot of people to accept.

john_flintstone 14y ago
The biggest problem I had - one I'm battling with right now - is that when you move successfully from being just a programmer to being an entrepreneur who sells software, after a while the software part becomes less important. You start thinking: If I can do this with software, I can do it with OTHER STUFF. And then you drift away from code and software entirely, as you realise your new entrepreneurial skills can be put to better use in other areas. It's a huge thing to stop being a programmer, when you started out thinking it was the only path open to you career wise, and that you would be in the software business in one form or another for your entire career. But cutting that cord - as difficult as it is - can be liberating. Cause face it - if you can sell software that you wrote yourself, you can sell anything online.