Poll: Do you work on your startup full time or part time?
Full time: Nothing else, or more than 8 hours per day.
Part time: Something you do on the side after your other primary job, or less than 8 hours a day.
Part time: Something you do on the side after your other primary job, or less than 8 hours a day.
0 ~ .25 hours M-F on the side business, depending on how many emails I received. I try to schedule 4 hour blocks on Saturday/Sunday to get stuff accomplished -- sometimes spiking to 6~8, although those days I find the 90% rule comes into play, too, so I generally try to avoid overdoing it.
It's arguable anyway - the only reason I've been doing consulting for the last 2 years was to raise enough money to get the business going and have some reasonable runway to focus full-time.
I'd be interested to know if that's a common practice? I guess the option is really only available to me because I'm a bit older and experienced - hard for grads to do consulting.
Smart, experienced people not only will help you refine your ideas and give you answers that will help you get to market quicker, they'll have connections that will help get you the resources / partners / talent your startup needs later.
On the other hand, after a couple years of growing that practice, we have some pretty excellent people on fulltime dev.
I'm not sure it's optimal. I find that for months at a time I simply stop working on my graduating thesis, mostly to do work in the startup, but also (when I put more pressure on myself) to do nothing at all. The latter is quite tiring...