4 ms·

Consulting has both pros and cons Pro: Being exposed to many clients may help identify a need that you can develop into a product/service. Con: Having clien

• tptacek 17y ago
  Respectfully, this doesn't make any sense to me at all. Being beholden to a BigCo gives you more opportunity to develop ideas than having control over a sales and delivery pipeline? So, no. But I think you have a kernel of a valid caveat there, which is that as long as you're bringing money in that isn't coming from your product, you're going to be distracted. My proposed solution for that --- one that's working well for us --- is to get to a point where you can simply hire people to do one or the other. Hard to argue that a full-time product person is "distracted" because his paycheck is coming from a consulting practice instead of a VC fund. This is also why I recommended starting a two-person company, and not simply becoming a freelancer. Freelancers do get sucked into "temporary W2" consulting hell.