Startup founders, would you walk us through a day in the life?
amitt: We had 4 engineer founders, 1 of which volunteered to handle most of the marketing/legal/biz stuff to allow the other 3 of us to code without distraction.Some background, the 4 of us lived in a house together and took turns cooking meals to reduce expenditure/downtime from eating out all the time.   So commute time was a matter of going downstairs.  We started off on 'work all the time and take reasonable breaks' for 6 days a week.  We burned out really quick on that so we switched to 60hr weeks of flex-time (honor-based work anyday you feel like, send status updates to the team before clocking-out with what you did that day and just get 60hrs in a week)With the latter schedule:
M-F, I would wake up around 11a, have lunch (or cook if it was my turn), work till dinner time, have dinner, then work till maybe 2-3a.  After I finished working, I would unwind with a tv/book/games before bed and then hit the sack.Interspersed would be small breaks/small meetings (maybe an hr or so total of time a day)/phone-calls as well as goofing off on hackernews or reading blogs.Weekends, unless I was behind on hours, I tended to spend on purely recreation or, if I was feeling the urge to code still, on experimental projects.In addition, we shared answering customer feedback since we wanted to make sure everyone had at least a little direct interaction with customers.  If divided evenly, this took maybe 20-40min a day of everyone's time.Keep in mind even the "coder founders" were drawn into bizdev/conferences/etc. based on what they felt like attending.  Nothing was really off-limits to anyone on the team, it was more about just dividing up priorities to let people get into the zone.