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by alexshye 4758 days ago
"@infogaufire, how did you manage accounting and marketing? Did you delegate that too?"

I would love to hear about this too. One of my other biggest challenges, as a tech guy, has been figuring out how to go about all the non-tech stuff.

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I actually managed that myself for sometime. Accounting can easily be managed if you can dedicate just one night on building a simple app for that with even a bad UI. All you have to do is: 1. Create a table Money with id, name, money, credit/debit (1 or 0), date&time 2. Create a form to enter these values

Below the form, just print values from database order by date&time

This simple thing will take you very long - believe me. Its that easy.

For marketing @ very early stage, you just have to be a hustler. This is something what I do whenever I float some random new project (just posted this comment on HN) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5836395

Exactly how I feel. I've coded like a headless chicken for the last 9 months, its what I enjoy and what I'm good at.

When I show the product to VC's and tell them I need help with marketing, accounting, establishing as a [already profitable] company. They brush me off and almost laugh. "Thats the easy stuff" they say.

Alex, what's your email. I can try to help best I can.
Hey, please shoot me an email at alex@soulmix.com.