Building your own company is a fractal of building your own life: there are a lot of wonderful people involved, and there is a comforting degree of interconnectedness required...but at its root, much of the work of defining a business and making it yours is a lonely and introspective job.
If you were perfectly happy taking someone else's direction, you'd still be working for someone else's company, right? So the primary difference between working for someone else and working for yourself is that when your work for yourself you have to follow your OWN direction. Defining that direction is harder than many people think. Then try adding a business partner. And some employees and some customers. These people...with their big brains and their will and their sense of destiny. Oy gevalt. Getting all those stars to line up and buy into your direction can be damned near maddening.
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