I am working on a dot com idea in Pakistan. Here in Pakistan there are still lots of opportunities in web and mobile. How do I convince myself to do a startup after understanding that entrepreneurship is actually more management than engineering and how can I learn new stuff in the startup?
As someone who has tried and failed at entrepreneurship using unfamiliar tech, I'd advise you to treat your startup's work and "learning new tech" work as completely separate.<p>Use the tech that you're most familiar with so that you can concentrate on solving your customers' problems. Only introduce tech that you're unfamiliar with if that solves a problem you can't solve with your existing knowledge. A new company is hard work and any opportunity to make something easier should be grabbed with both hands.<p>At the same time, it's easy to burn out on the problems of your business. If hacking on new tech is something you enjoy as a hobby, you should schedule downtime for yourself and do some experimenting (preferably nothing related to your business). At the very least you'll come back mentally refreshed, and if you're lucky you might find a new perspective to solve an existing problem in your business. I wouldn't advise doing this if you don't consider learning new tech as recreation though.
i would disagree that a startup is more management than engineering, i reckon you need a product first, and most of that phase is engineering. Especially in a startup, i don't think you need to think in terms of roles, i think you need to think in terms of solving problems, which might sometimes involve other people. Essentially, everything is a problem which you can try to solve with or without the help of other people, whether it be engineering or dealing with people.