<story><title>How I built a startup while working full-time in Finance</title><url>http://andypickens.tumblr.com/post/19345391305/how-i-built-a-startup-while-working-full-time-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andyokdj</author><text>I worked most nights during the week for a 1-2hrs and every weekend, sometimes spending full days working on the weekends. I found the time when I could and delegated work to my cofounders who did the same. It was just a lot of hard work and extra hours. I sacrificed some social life but still managed to enjoy New York hugely over the past year.</text></item><item><author>upthedale</author><text>This doesn&apos;t really address any practical issues you faced in holding down a full-time job whilst also building the startup.&lt;p&gt;Based on the title, I was expecting more. Something like how you managed your time?&lt;p&gt;That said, congrats on launching.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lusr</author><text>I think people underestimate how much you can get done if you commit to at least 1-2 hours during the week EVERY DAY, and at least another 12-16 hours on the weekend.  Working during the week is critical, even if it&apos;s difficult, simply because it keeps the momentum going and motivation fresh (in my experience of trying it every other way).  It&apos;s also a deceptive 30-80% additional capacity than what you have merely working weekends.&lt;p&gt;Oh and paying attention to what you&apos;re doing and how long it took, and making sure not to waste unnecessary time on nice-to-haves or unnecessary research rather than critical functionality.  This is particularly important if you&apos;re working alone;  I find reviewing my source control checkins and my PivotalTracker progress very helpful in this respect.&lt;p&gt;Then again I ended a great relationship for work so perhaps I&apos;m not the best exemplar of priorities.</text></comment>
<story><title>How I built a startup while working full-time in Finance</title><url>http://andypickens.tumblr.com/post/19345391305/how-i-built-a-startup-while-working-full-time-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andyokdj</author><text>I worked most nights during the week for a 1-2hrs and every weekend, sometimes spending full days working on the weekends. I found the time when I could and delegated work to my cofounders who did the same. It was just a lot of hard work and extra hours. I sacrificed some social life but still managed to enjoy New York hugely over the past year.</text></item><item><author>upthedale</author><text>This doesn&apos;t really address any practical issues you faced in holding down a full-time job whilst also building the startup.&lt;p&gt;Based on the title, I was expecting more. Something like how you managed your time?&lt;p&gt;That said, congrats on launching.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j45</author><text>Can you elaborate on the level and detail of planning you had to do to be effective in 1-2 hour chunks?&lt;p&gt;I think it would be really interesting for the productivity obsessed to maybe even see a mockup of the task lists you would generate to get a sense of how detailed of a list was good.</text></comment>