After an important meeting where you actually get to give feedback and share some of your ideas for new features or bug fixes, one of the managers sends a follow-up email to the team telling you to get features done, like they were his suggestions.

Manager “I'd like you to work on.... “

Me "Right, that's what I wanted to work on... "

This happens from time to time with some bad managers. Good managers help their team succeed. Bad managers fail in the end. I have witnessed it many times. You will get gods managers down the road.

There's nothing wrong with having a paper trail of what work was assigned in a meeting but he really shouldn't take credit for your ideas..

Developers don't get credit... Only sales does. Devs cost money, sales people make money.
Lol, that is what most people think.
Screw that, WE are the product they are selling... Our ideas are worth a lot and we should be recognized for our input.

As I start doing more Tech Arch work, I really appreciate the work done by the devs. Without them my ideas and design would not have been realised. I really hate it when we hit a milestone, I am the only one congratulated by management.

@lewdogg I work for a group of guys who last year, I think, 4 of them split 2M in profit. Sure, they founded the company, based off of a business model 100s of companies do(not original). They're online marketers, work at the office about 20 hours a week (mostly checking email, trading stocks and playing basketball and having meetings). I am responsible for traffic, sites, servers, new pages, split testing, autoresponders, crm, cc processing and make nowhere near their take home pay.

Fortunately tech is an industry where developers are the preferred type of founder. Most VC's will discard companies without tech leaders as founders. Granted you might be replaced (see Richard in Silicon Valley) but that is not such a bad thing.

Once the business is A or higher funded you might want to do tech most of the time and let someone else run the show and hit the road to meet with clients, investors... At some point you will want to hire some great salespeople to build YOUR business.