I love this question, but I would like to extend it a bit. Even though the body of the question the OP asked is about software dev specifically, how do you learn other non-software dev best practices when no one is there to teach you?
Specifically, how do you learn how to build a company around your product? Or how to build a board of advisors/directors? What are the best practices around managing those?
How do you shift your cash flow management thinking from spending out of the reserves built up, to spending out of future cash flows?
In other words, aside from building product, there are so many other skills that a founder has to learn as they grow their company. I assume most YC companies learn this stuff from YC or their batch mates that have done it before them.
But for those of us not in the Valley or in YC, how do we learn this stuff?
Also, I guess the main premise behind my question was how do we learn best practices in company building in general? Ie how do we build the machine that builds the machine using best practices for everything, or as many things as possible (for both tech and non-tech companies)?
Specifically, how do you learn how to build a company around your product? Or how to build a board of advisors/directors? What are the best practices around managing those?
How do you shift your cash flow management thinking from spending out of the reserves built up, to spending out of future cash flows?
In other words, aside from building product, there are so many other skills that a founder has to learn as they grow their company. I assume most YC companies learn this stuff from YC or their batch mates that have done it before them.
But for those of us not in the Valley or in YC, how do we learn this stuff?
Also, I guess the main premise behind my question was how do we learn best practices in company building in general? Ie how do we build the machine that builds the machine using best practices for everything, or as many things as possible (for both tech and non-tech companies)?