E-myth Revisited

[Ankesh]

Thanks Jim for willing to help.

I've been juggling 2 very promising new big projects since a few months now. I don't want to give up one of them - although working on both together is delaying them both...

A few disclosures:

1. Am in a good position financially. Can take holidays whenever I want. Lots of flexibility.

2. I have 2 people working for me right now (1 is full time, other is part time).

3. The problem is work keeps on piling up. For eg: I took the day off yesterday. But today - I have a bit more work to do than usual.

What I want is to be like the big public limited companies. Where the "owners" don't work at all.

(All this clicked for me before E-Myth - when I read a comic book on Chanakya last year. Chanakya united whole of India 2500 years ago - without lifting a sword. He got others to lift the sword for him.)

Few things I'm looking for help in is:

1. Hiring some one to read my emails. I usually spend 1-2 hours everyday - when I work - on emails. How do you outsource emails when all of the emails are not related to any specific project? Its a scary thought - training someone and teaching them how to answer questions for 6 different projects. At the same time, its not a job I can outsource to more than one person...

2. Hiring a project manager. Right now, I over look the day to day work. And supervise 2 people working for me. But would like someone else to take this over. The problem is transitioning - how do you hire a CEO without giving away a lot of control - when your company is so small?