When you work for yourself, you have the best boss in the world (who lets you start and stop work whenever you want to) and the worst boss in the world (who doesn't keep you focused on your task and allows you to work on whatever you want to whenever you want to).
To be successful you need more than just great ideas. You need focus, discipline and an ability to properly manage your finances and resources on whatever scale they may be.
Most of the serious business owners here are either business minded or creative minded by nature but unless they have partners (or employees) who fulfill the "other" role, or have an ability to combine the two roles themselves, they will not be achieving all they could. (left brain/right brain stuff)
I once worked for a (then) small two partner accounting firm who in my mind had the perfect setup for business. One guy was a bean counting machine who never deviated from looking at numbers and needed everything exact to the penny. He serviced all the traditional accounting clients and brought the regular money in, and managed the business' own finances whilst his partner (also an accountant but a more flamboyant, "detail doesn't matter" guy) was able to look at the bigger picture, and dream up new services for clients, and new ways to build the business.
He was able to do that, and do that well, because he knew his partner had the business making core income, and that freed up his time to go after the bigger deals, which he then had to "sell" to the guy controling the funds.
Sometimes when you don't have a boss, it is good to think like you do.....
