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Having a baby that isn't the start-up?
So, an acuqaintence of mine who is someone whose opinion I respect on the nitty gritty in the dirt of startups just had a new baby.
I was thinking about how distracting that can be. How the new ...
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Obsessive thoughts making me a “under performer”
This is more like a behavioral problem. I always want to start a business. Since this feeling increasing day by day, I am more obsessed in my day job(software Engineer).
1.I have few startup ideas ...
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How do you balance work and family life?
Here it is, 1:06 AM on a Friday night... and I'm still doing business stuff (well, technically, meta-business stuff here with OnStartups). I have a feeling that I probably should have went to bed with ...
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How to Guide the Amount that Employees Work?
I run a well-funded startup. We're fortunate to have built a kick-ass team with a great product and good early traction. But I worry that our team's work ethic is sliding into stasis. Most of my ...
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Startups and full time jobs
I've come over from Stack Overflow. I'm currently working full time as a web site developer, and like many people have got a bit fed up of working for someone else and want to set my own business up. ...
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What should I consider before jumping from stable job to startup?
I work in finance and have a stable job with lots of growth potential. However, I have no passion here. When I think about working for a startup, my eyes light up with excitement. I'm immobilized ...
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How Much Work Is Too Much Work?
I'm a freelance developer, formerly from the business sales world (Capital One Bank, HSBC Bank). About six years ago, before I knew ANYTHING about programming, I got involved with an internet startup ...
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Should I have a girlfriend while bootstrapping a startup? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to start a business and not destroy your marriage?
I began to seriously work on a startup idea during the summer after reading a bunch of blogs and watching startup ...
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Are there Internet startups that became successful without enormous time commitment from employees?
The software and Internet startup companies I've worked for required 60, 80, or more hours a week of their employees (not just founders), for extended periods of time, up to a year. Are there examples ...
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A Lazy Entreprener - the Full/Part Time Dilemma
Question: Can a lazy entrepreneur/perfectionist make it?
I am 50, single, and after 15 years have built a very nice sole prop web design business. I became more disciplined last year and might ...
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What methodology do you use to control business cofounders?
Here is a story behind:
We had our small startup found (me and my friend are so called technical guys) by one of the major VC. They gave us so called parental advisory, one of the managers form the ...
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Technical Minded Team Experience Or General Work Experience
To preface this, I'm a kid in high school that enjoys playing with ruby and ruby on rails. During the summer, my web development passion gets close to 100% of my time, but during the school year it ...
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Sharing workload between partners when I am the only developer?
I have been dipping my toes into a web-based startup idea with two others.
They approached me with the original seed of an idea, but neither are developers. So I would be building the (fairly large ...
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Is is possible to succeed at both starting and sustaining a successful business and a successful relationship simultaneously
I tried to ask this question here, but unfortunately I ask it in the wrong way that it attracts the wrong answers! So I want to reask:
Is there any example that one can succeed at both starting and ...
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Is it Possible to start a Business and a Relationship Simultaneously?
I stumbled across one sad story, on how one entrepreneur broke a relationship, and then missed another because of his startup.
This got me thinking: is it possible to start a business and a ...
