I just met someone looking to have some custom software built and he asked me a real head-scratcher of a question. For a previous project, he’d received quotes ranging from $2,500 to $250,000. How could this be?

A few weeks ago I went camping. When I came back I promptly came down with the flu. This kicked off two of the toughest weeks I’ve ever experienced as an entrepreneur.

I’ll start by getting the boring crap out of the way, namely what happened from a…