| I'm married to my co-founder. Neither of us work through the night. Recently we quit working weekends. We spend too much time at our computers lately, but that's more out of laziness and lack of originality than anything else. Occasionally, we yell at each other about work, but then I hear married people do that about other things, like laundry. We have one SaaS out in the wild, another under development, 1 ebook, and various live and your-own-pace training courses. I quit consulting in January (except for an ongoing contract I had to fulfill) and he has kept doing the consulting, but is about to quit himself. There's no such thing as a startup truth. Some people will tell you you'll work through the night and get sucked up; some people will tell you, no way. (Like me.) The fact is, what type of business you choose to pursue, and the choices you make every day, will determine what your life's going to be like. Me, I'm happy knowing that 12 mos from now, our first SaaS will be grossing $40-50k/mo and our second one probably $10-15k/mo. :) |