I'm bad at marketing and poor at product decisions. For 10 years it only worked with one database. It took 30 lines of code to work on many more databases but I waited 10 years to do it. Don't make my mistake! I am trying to get better.
A nerd’s nerd. I am exactly the same, I think it’s because folks like a lot of the people that hang out around these comments are easily excited and self-motivated for the creative, engineering challenges involved, but struggle to produce the same kind of get up and go when it comes to the basic, fundamental packaging and presentation involved with marketing and/or sales.
As a graphic artist, I even get enthusiastic for a lot of the marketing, but as a freelance IT consultant, I tend to lose all motivation for selling my services the nanosecond I achieve sufficient income to get by, and revert to spending my time exploring and tinkering. We all have our own blind/weak spots.
I have often thought that some kind of service to pair creatives/engineers with professional development/managers would be really useful. I think that’s just called “LinkedIn”, but something more explicitly about entrepreneurial endeavors would be nice.
