The best (and worst) boss you will ever work for is yourself.
Pro: You get to determine what jobs you do, keep most of what you get paid, and what clients you work for.
Con: It’s all on you – every success but also every mistake.
Balance: Balance your work life and the rest of your life. Easy to say, hard to do, especially if you are an entrepreneur. The *best* way to focus is to set *hard* boundaries. e.g. I will work till 8 pm and then go home, regardless of where I am on this item. It will help you manage your time.
NO body ever said on their deathbed “I wish I spent more time at work”
Think small.
Small teams change the world. ~2 guys in a garage have changed more than any multi-million employee corporation:
Apple (2)- personal computer, smart phone, iPod, ipad
the Wright Brothers (2) – viable airplanes
Thomas Edison (40 employees) – light bulb, phonograph
Amazon – (1-5) ecommerce/shopping online
Alexander Graham Bell (2) – telephone
Intel (4) – the microprocessor
Alexander Fleming (1-12) Penicillin
Albert Hoffman (1) – LSD
John Walson, Sr (1) – cable television
James Russell (1-6) – the CD
Ken Thompson / Dennis Ritchie (+ 1-4)- C programming language, UNIX
Tim Paterson (1) – MS-DOS (aka QDOS, 86-DOS)
Tim Berners-Lee (1) – html, the first web server and the World Wide Web browser
Marc Andreessen (2) – mosaic GUI based web browser, Netscape