<story><title>The Life of a Startup Founder’s Significant Other</title><url>http://www.opazazzyzen.com/2010/05/the-life-of-a-startup-founders-significant-other/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerme</author><text>I&apos;m a musician. I&apos;m also a freelance developer. I did the startup thing, and it&apos;s not for me. Right now I&apos;ve been programming for about 6 months of the year and spending the rest of the time on music.&lt;p&gt;Starting a music project, be it a band or whatever, does have some similarities to a startup. You need a good product, you need to market it, promote it, you&apos;ve got to start lean, you need to keep at it all the time, etc, etc.&lt;p&gt;My lady gives me a lot of support. She&apos;s fine with practicing 3 nights a week, being in the recording studio, sitting on my laptop working on demos or editing recordings.&lt;p&gt;I spend a lot of time working on music! A good 50-60 hours a week, for sure.&lt;p&gt;...but...&lt;p&gt;I always seem to have time for her, too. Even when I&apos;ve got a programming contract.&lt;p&gt;You can always make time for the people and things that you love. If you&apos;re not making time for them, you don&apos;t love them. It really is that simple.&lt;p&gt;Honestly, do you really need to be spending 15 hours a day working on some silly little company? Your daily photo company or whatever it is? That&apos;s going to be your pride and joy when you&apos;re all alone with a pile of cash?&lt;p&gt;I mean, this is Hacker News. I know what you&apos;re motivations are here. They&apos;re not art. They don&apos;t seem to be love either.&lt;p&gt;I guess that&apos;s why I got out of the game.&lt;p&gt;I want love to rule my life, and not the other way around.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Life of a Startup Founder’s Significant Other</title><url>http://www.opazazzyzen.com/2010/05/the-life-of-a-startup-founders-significant-other/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>char</author><text>About 2.5 years ago, my boyfriend and I had an idea and wanted to do a startup. I had zero coding experience, but I really, really wanted to be involved in a startup. So I taught myself how to code and then built the entire front end of the project.&lt;p&gt;That project failed, but soon later we founded a new startup that is on its way to ramen profitability. (We learned A LOT from the first experience). We both code essentially equal amounts, and share all the stress, while of course supporting each other at the same time. Neither of us has ever been happier doing anything.</text></comment>