Re:Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while ...
by hndl on Friday December 02, 2011 @10:42AM
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I'm curious to know what the typical day of a person in this setting is like? As in, what were ones' day-job hours and hours for project work?
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Re:Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while ...
by flacon on Friday December 02, 2011 @10:58AM
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I have built two startups while working fulltime and raising 2 kids. The first startup failed once my co-founder left town, after the business model and app were about 90% completed. My 2nd/current startup is http://targetmobi.com.
My schedule M-F for the last 3 years has been: 7am wakeup, feed kids etc. 9am - 5:30 work fulltime. 5:30 - 10pm family time. 10pm - 1am Startup time!. Yes thats 5-6 hours of sleep! Trying to do a startup on the side with children has been very challenging for me. Maybe its the biz models I am trying to tackle. Maybe building simple iphone/ipads apps would have had a better ROI.