I am in the same boat. I am the solo founder of Infocaptor and Mockuptiger. Lot of times I wish for a co-founder with whom I can bounce off ideas and plans to take over the world. Sigh...but on the flipside it gives tremendous sense of responsibility.
Automation and monitoring is crucial when you are solo founder. Think about automating every little thing that takes only few minutes to do but the budgeted time is 5 times of actual time it takes to finish it.
Outsourcing, automation and dashboards are your friends. I have either outsourced majority of my activity or automated it.
But the problem with running startusp is the task list keeps changing every day and is like a bottomless bin. Everyday you automate something and you keep finding new things to do.
Healthy work and life balance is so crucial. Due to stress at one time had to visit the emergency department, glad it was just "Stress increasing the acidity" and wife had all the reason to take control of my routine (just few days). After that episode, I immediately put breaks on all the stressing out. I realized there was simply no need of making things happen all at the same time.
I put back my meditation routine on track ( avg 2 hrs/day) and that has helped so much in terms of health and clarity (plus other things). I recommend everyone who wants to be involved in startups to start meditating. It will be a huge favor for your family and yourself.
Automation and monitoring is crucial when you are solo founder. Think about automating every little thing that takes only few minutes to do but the budgeted time is 5 times of actual time it takes to finish it.
Outsourcing, automation and dashboards are your friends. I have either outsourced majority of my activity or automated it.
But the problem with running startusp is the task list keeps changing every day and is like a bottomless bin. Everyday you automate something and you keep finding new things to do.
Healthy work and life balance is so crucial. Due to stress at one time had to visit the emergency department, glad it was just "Stress increasing the acidity" and wife had all the reason to take control of my routine (just few days). After that episode, I immediately put breaks on all the stressing out. I realized there was simply no need of making things happen all at the same time.
I put back my meditation routine on track ( avg 2 hrs/day) and that has helped so much in terms of health and clarity (plus other things). I recommend everyone who wants to be involved in startups to start meditating. It will be a huge favor for your family and yourself.
Goodluck and cheers to all the solo founders!