If you need a boss to make all of the prioritisation and deadline decisions, you won't make it as an entrepreneur. But you can take responsibility without having to make all of those decisions on your own.<p>This is where having the support of people who have walked the path before (like the YC team or even others here at HN) is invaluable, as well as getting the right advice <i>and</i> being held accountable by a specific mentor or coach.