i cannot imagine how anyone could do a start up successfully part time. The same way you raise a family with a job, or have a hobby with a job, or even watch T

i cannot imagine how anyone could do a start up successfully part time. The same way you raise a family with a job, or have a hobby with a job, or even watch TV with a job. It's difficult, but not impossible. It requires a lot of dedication and commitment, and more hard work than you can imagine. It also takes longer to complete. our competition moves pretty fast, we would probably not be standing where we are now if we did this as a side project. This is perhaps the biggest concern. But it's less of a concern if you've identified a pain point in a market and are working towards solving it; especially in a b2b market. The consumer facing "fad" development (not trying to be derogatory) moves much faster and carries less of an attention span, so I wouldn't recommend part-time work if this is where your product is targeted. That being said, I'm with 37Signals' approach of building a business, not an acquisition target, so in general the whole process is slower.