Define "own business": I guess if you are looking for multi-million dollar businesses being run in someone's spare time, yeah, you won't find many examples. But what about the guy who simply wants to have a second source of income by running something in his spare time? Plenty of examples of people who turn a hobby into something that resembles a business. Plenty of people earning a second income by trading something, creating something. How much revenue is enough? 5K / month?
Re:Employees working on their own business
by tom_rath on Friday January 23, 2009 @07:50PM
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Well, gee, if it's so awesome to empower one's staff to start their own business while working on your payroll, I'd expect employers of software developers would be trumpeting their fine examples from the hills to attract the best staff possible!
Why the silence? Because starting a business while working full-time for another employer does not work, and any person who has started their own software development company would understand why.
That they know of! It's not exactly the kind of thing most sensible people would draw attention to.