Who works full time at their own startup?

Posted by kkt262 on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @01:55PM
from the self-post dept.

Would love to hear about fellow Hacker News users who work full time at a startup that they founded.

Are you able to do it because you make enough money or perhaps because you got funding?

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Re:Who works full time at their own startup? by mindcrime on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @02:04PM (#3476041)

Well... I am for at least a few days, since I got laid off from my previous day-job. I'd been doing the "nights and weekends" thing all along, and now I get a little while to work on this as much as I want. But the startup isn't funded yet and we don't have any revenue yet, so I'll be taking another day-job at some point. I've been chewing on the idea of just milking the unemployment benefit as long as it lasts while I work on the startup, but I already have some discussions underway about a new day-job, so we'll see.

In the meantime, it is nice to get up and spend all day working on my own thing; instead of working all day doing mind numbingly boring shit for a company that's not going anywhere. :-)

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Re:Who works full time at their own startup? by akg on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @06:45AM (#3479145)

I've recently quit my job to work on my startup full time. I do have some money saved up and am living cheaply. At some point you have to take a chance on yourself and do what you want. Life is too short to be working on things you don't want to do; that was the primary reason for me to devote myself full time. I also wrote about this in slightly longer prose, if you are interested:

http://www.akashkgarg.com/essay/therighttime.html

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Re:Who works full time at their own startup? by Ancient on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @06:09PM (#3476969)

I put way more time in my startup than my freelance and little part-time job (combined), so in essence, I try to have as little expenses as possible and live within my means with whatever money comes thru freelance channels until it runs out (rinse & repeat). My goal is to work full-time and earn more thru my own startup within the next six months.

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Re:Who works full time at their own startup? by kkt262 on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @01:05AM (#3478252)

Interesting. No one responded that does their startup fulltime without any other source of income or savings. I didn't even think about the fact that you could just be working on your startup living off your savings.

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Re:Who works full time at their own startup? by priitp on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @04:24AM (#3504066)

We've been working full-time with 2 co-founders, for almost a month now. We took a loan to finance it, and hope that we will start to make revenue soon to pay it back :)

The product: www.plumbr.eu

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Re:Who works full time at their own startup? by tstegart on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @03:28PM (#3476330)

We're doing it half and half. My co-founder has a day job and I'm working on the start-up full time while living off savings after working like crazy at my last job.

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Re:Who works full time at their own startup? by mbarlow on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @04:41PM (#3476608)

I've been working on my startup fulltime for close to 6 months now. I've been able to do it because of savings.

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Re:Who works full time at their own startup? by sixQuarks on Monday January 23, 2012 @01:33PM (#3501478)

I've been working full-time on my own sites (I don't really think of them as startups), since 1997.

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Re:Who works full time at their own startup? by zerostar07 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @06:52PM (#3487540)

Does a 1-person company qualify as a startup? Because if yes i 've been doing it for 3 years

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