[dangravell]

With the consent of my employer (another startup) I started in the mornings, evenings and weekends with a very supportive partner.

The aforementioned employer then began to fail, and so I was extremely lucky to be able to devote more and more time to my business as the aforementioned startup started to ask people to work fewer hours.

Once I hit a revenue target agreed with my wife, I jumped ship: http://www.elstensoftware.com/blog/2011/01/21/going-fulltime...

To lower the target required, I cut pretty much everything apart from the mortgage and taxes.

In some ways I miss the constraint of working fewer hours - I think I had better focus then; these days I do make a few mistakes with where I spend my time.