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Originally Posted by waynesulak
I have found in my dealings with very small ventures that the owners are much better at their product or service production than they are at running a business. I believe this is especially true of an artisan type business like frame building. Many in the bike building business are more oriented to the artistic side of things more than record keeping and accounting. As a result often mistakes and misunderstandings in order details are common.
The builders that succeed are often those that run their business well.
Wayne
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That is very, very true. Most artists are not great businesspeople, and I would say that the 'best' framebuilders are artisans that create products that approach art, especially the top-tier one-person shops. I have a custom frameset that came from one of the guys that people have been very, very unhappy with recently. It was like mating elephants to get it (takes two years to produce results, and involves much kicking and screaming). It's quite a nice piece of functional industrial art, though, imo. YMMV.