[hunterp]

As the author of this article, but without trying to sound too self promotional, I disagree. I was the only Android engineer on an app that is currently featured on the front page of http://market.android.com

Entrepreneurship is awesome. I have self generating, passive income from my personal Android apps and I respond to most customers emails personally.

As far as my skills on SoundTracking:

I already had 2 years of solid Android experience under my belt, and over the course of the project, I learned a shitload more about Android.

I made use of my teammates extensively.

I released early and often.

I managed to generate positive relationships with over 20 api partners to make this project happen.

I discovered new ways to make objected oriented abstractions work in Android.

The list goes on.

[Jare]

Then I will posit that:

- You became an entrepeneur because you want. - You don't believe that your programming skills are obsolete.

And thus your article doesn't really talk about your actual experience.

[hunterp]

Correct. Not trying to toot my own horn, but after 10 years of getting better each year, I am solid programmer. I literally just finished working on SoundTracking.

However, I have focused solely on programming the last 10 years, and I believe my focus depleted from other skills that are highly necessary to balance someone out: product development, winning friends and influencing people, sales, marketing, physical builds, the arts and humanities, entrepreneurship and finally understanding and gettings your hands deep and dirty into real business experience:construction, food and restaurants, medecine, education, finance, fashion, etc, etc.

My intention is to help others not go down such a narrow path as I have.

Reading the Steve Jobs biography really lit a fire under me.