How much time of his time should a CEO in a 5 man team spend managing?
mahmud: You code to execute vision, just as you step up a marketing campaign to execute a vision/strategy. If you're growing so fast that the coding can't catch up with the pace that your vision needs to be executed, give up coding and delegate it to someone else.You feel you're not accomplishing anything because of "muscle memory"; your mind is used to feel accomplished when a build is complete and a test suite passes with flying colors. Your role has changed, and now you need to get your high from somewhere else. Feel free to go over what the team is doing a few times a day, but ultimately you will need to give up.If you're feeling bored you probably are not doing all you could. Business responsibility is a hell of a burden and you should be able to visualize months into the future while your team is still at square one. It's not the same thing as a hack-mode, where you can shake off by scratching that itch and writing a toy app or a library.Look harder into your market and competition and you will find something that you might have missed before that will keep you awake. 2/3, or 3/3 of the time left for management will feel like peanuts :-)