Right now, starting a business means learning to program in Objective-C using Cocoa, looking for office space, and hiring employees / partners.  Hmm, “partner”.  Maybe I should use that in the next listing.

Hiring is difficult—and critical.  Given my choice, I would definitely give the other two a back seat to hiring a kickin’ Cocoa developer with great UI skills.  But, where are these people?  Hiring is hard.

The other two are going pretty well, happily.  We’re not going to move into super awesome office space, but then, we are pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps!  We won’t attract certain people—those that want to work in swanky office space and make a swanky salary.  But guess what?  That is a selfish daydream that doesn’t help anyone build a profitable company.

As for learning Objective-C and Cocoa, how could that go badly?  I am no Apple fan boy, but the OS X development platform is amazing.  Hats off the the platform company.

Oh, starting a business means one other thing, too:  excitement!  This is going to be fun.  If I’m lucky, I’ll write about it.