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0 pointsmindcrime13y ago0 comments

You can bootstrap a startup quite successfully just using a few hours a week. But not all startups. Depends what you're doing.

I guess that's true, when you consider something like patio11 and his BCC. It doesn't sound like he was pouring 60+ hours a week into that (or maybe he was, somebody correct me if I'm wrong, please).

But I'm also guessing that the set of startups that you can build with that small a time investment, is pretty small. Especially if you're talking about something that's intended to be a scalable startup, something that can be a billion dollar business someday.

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jes519913y ago

if time was fungible, then working 40 hours instead of 60 hours would only make it take 50% longer in calendar-time to get the thing done. And if you have some other income stream, then that extra time might not matter much. And if getting enough sleep and seeing your family makes you mentally healthier the calendar-time penalty might be less than 50%. Maybe a lot less.

jaredsohn13y ago

In this podcast (http://productpeople.tv/2012/12/19/patio11-part1/), he says that he worked about five hours a week on it as a side project (although it also talks about how he would work on weekends, so maybe it was a little more than that.)

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