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"First of all, I negotiated an opportunity to work from home at my full-time job so I wouldn't have to be in the office all day long." I feel like this is key.

by tinbad 10y ago

"First of all, I negotiated an opportunity to work from home at my full-time job so I wouldn't have to be in the office all day long." I feel like this is key. I've been an entrepreneur for the first 10 or so years of my professional career and have had multiple businesses that I started out of the first one because I had so much flexibility managing my own time. Due to a number of circumstances I've been working away at a corp office for the last 3 years and only now I realized how hard it is to do anything "on the side" after spending most of the productive hours of the day in your boss' office. I know, I know, I could bring my personal laptop and take long breaks throughout the day to work on side projects but aside from any moral considerations it's practically really hard to schedule calls, trying to not get noticed, being kicked out of meeting rooms, etc. In my mind, being able to work from home and set your own schedule is such a huge plus to kickstart a side business/project.

FT_intern 10y ago
Some people wake up early (5-6 AM) to get 4-5 productive hours before going to work
- cylinder 10y ago
  That might work if you're building a product but most businesses require active selling, talking to clients, building relationships, etc which are generally done during conventional hours.
alexlash 10y ago
This was one of the key factors for sure, however on the very first stage I've worked from office and still had three jobs or so. But this was total nightmare
- fuqted 10y ago
  "Over time I realized that everything I was doing at my job (e.g. writing copy and managing social media acounts) I could also do independently. My co-founder Dmitry agreed " I believe this was the main factor to be honest; a partner.
  - alexlash 10y ago
    Partner played huge role - he was free of working somewhere else and could for eg. schedule meetings with potential clients if I was unavailable. In future we realized that Skype and messengers work pretty good for our customer communication, but without this I doubt our business would survive

by tinbad 10y ago

FT_intern 10y ago

Some people wake up early (5-6 AM) to get 4-5 productive hours before going to work

cylinder 10y ago
That might work if you're building a product but most businesses require active selling, talking to clients, building relationships, etc which are generally done during conventional hours.

alexlash 10y ago

This was one of the key factors for sure, however on the very first stage I've worked from office and still had three jobs or so. But this was total nightmare

fuqted 10y ago
"Over time I realized that everything I was doing at my job (e.g. writing copy and managing social media acounts) I could also do independently. My co-founder Dmitry agreed " I believe this was the main factor to be honest; a partner.
- alexlash 10y ago
  Partner played huge role - he was free of working somewhere else and could for eg. schedule meetings with potential clients if I was unavailable. In future we realized that Skype and messengers work pretty good for our customer communication, but without this I doubt our business would survive