Find Me Fit

Doing what you love vs. what you have to do

I like to think that every entrepreneur is in it because they love to do what their doing. Personally, I love the process of creating something from nothing. I really really love creating value where there was none before and all the challenges that come with that.

Part of what I think makes people successful is being able to identify personal weaknesses and delegate those to people who can do it much better. For example, every person I hire is smarter than me. No doubt about it. I mean, honestly, why would I hire them if they weren’t smarter than me in some way?

As I’m preparing to raise our next round of funding for Blue Lava Technologies, I’ve stumbled across a personal weakness. I _hate_ accounting. I mean, I really really hate creating balance, income, and cashflow statements. Don’t get me wrong, I love the data. That’s some of the most important data any entrepreneur has to make good decision and be sure that the business is running well. I just hate putting it all together, which is the job I’ve been tasked with for the last two weeks.

It’s made me really appreciate how much I love everything else I do. It’s also made me realize that I need to hire a CFO to handle this for me in the future. So if you know anyone, let me know.

Oh yeah, we’re also looking for a really good COO and Project Manager.

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