[ohashi]

I've been on both sides of this. I was hired to cover for 1 man dev shop for 2 weeks. I was briefed, given necessary details, introduced to client(s) and just sort of jumped in. Handed it all back over when he returned. I think it went pretty well, it seemed like an immense amount of trust on his part. I am not sure I would have been comfortable if the roles were reversed.

As for taking vacations with my startup... I just left. But my startup is mostly automated and doesn't require much direct input from me. If I stop working or disappear for a bit, nothing bad should happen other than a server crash (which hopefully my setup will recover from). I won't get any marketing, or new features, but I am just providing an informational site. So really, it tends to just stagnate if I'm not working on it, but not decline.