What all of the guys above have said is brilliant. I think the key thing you should take away from what they all said (although all of it is valuable in any ca

What all of the guys above have said is brilliant. I think the key thing you should take away from what they all said (although all of it is valuable in any case) is that no matter how good or mediocre your other skills are, you need to be a solid manager. Finding means and methods of automating tasks and removing some of the flack or less-productive activities and placing it on another piece of software or company is what a manager/solo guy will be good at. I would go even as far as saying that if you think writing the actual code is a less productive activity, then you should also out-source that. Finding a solid team or company that can turn your exact product specs will be a means of automating your dev work onto someone else. Brilliant question and responses!