How to assemble a team?

Question

Project management

For the past 5 years I have been making applications for mobile. These are both pet projects and commercial orders.
Also freelancing on sites (clumsy but full stack).

The main goal for 2021 is to assemble a team and organize my own mini studio and start commercial development, but I'm just a regular full stack and I had no experience in management.

What literature can be read on the topic of creating and managing a team in terms of development? How to search for orders correctly, what postulates to use when working, etc.?

Answer 1

There are four obvious options here:
1) Read magic books in all the necessary areas of knowledge, where they will tell you "about the intricacies of creating and managing a team in the key of development, how to properly search for orders, what chips postulates to use when working, etc."
Books are a useful thing, but only in addition to your experience, the option itself is not working. No one will ever be able to describe how you work with a specific team, specific customers, what strategy to choose in a specific market.
2) Get a job in a company as a PM / Team Lead, gain experience in communicating with customers and managing personnel there.
The option is working, as reliable as possible, but it will take several years, and it does not require investments.
3)Train on cats. Hire a junior, make a pet project with him, throw him some simple parts of commercial orders. Then hire another junior, and so on. At first, order design and testing from other freelancers, as a result, you will get all the required skills.
The option requires a certain amount of money, allows you to gain experience right now, but there is no one to insure against mistakes, unlike v2.
4) Open a studio with someone who already has the experience you need but lacks the technical expertise.
There is an obvious minus in the form of possible disagreements with a partner, but there are also pluses, for example, investments are required two times less than alone, multidirectional load is also less.