[mkal_tsr]

I was at this point until I quit my job to go all-in on my start-up. My management technique was pretty much to remind myself that if this fails, I have a full-time job to fall back to. Remember, you may be splitting your time and energy between 2 jobs, but that's also 1 more job that you don't have to worry about failing (for the purposes of financial security). The further you get now, the less distance you'd need to worry about if you wanted to do this full-time. Try to balance the urge to do this full-time with the "safety net" of your full-time job and focus on your health and enjoyment more than the company (you can decide to f-over your health later, but while you're still salaried at another job, there's no reason to).

Above all, enjoy the experience, have fun, and learn about yourself and others. Good luck and keep asking question when you have them, just one easy way to learn more than you knew before!

[pumpkinattwelve]

I am totally enjoying it as the light at the end of the tunnel is almost there and have learned a bunch. But I'm not yet ready to pull the cord and go full time until it has replaced my current income and then some.

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> until it has replaced my current income

The metric to watch isn't how secure it makes you feel. It's growth. A startup is a company designed to grow.

One advantage a full time job offers is you can afford to take the risk of building something daring that takes more time to identify. A funded startup pressured for growth might otherwise miss this part.

The constraint of having little free time makes you work only on what's important. Which incidentally is how some of the best skunkworks projects produced results. Constraint is an advantage in creativity.

As for coping with the emotions, launch sooner rather than later so you know how far off you are from something useful. One of the worst emotions is launching late and realizing you could have stayed in a mode of building without feedback nearly infinitely. The launch is good training for the emotions because you'll realize how unreliable they can be in the absence of data. And always have at least one active user.

And exercise, and grow disciplined with sleep, preferably starting the day hacking because not only does it awake your mind but you give more of the benefit of new ideas to your startup rather than the day job.

[pumpkinattwelve]

Unfortunately I can't pay the mortgage based on revenue projections :)

I have noticed that by being constrained on my time that I have not touched frivolous features. The core product is quiet lean but is working great so far as an MVP.

Thanks for the great comments.

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You can pay it based on revenue: launch and get users.

The fear of putting something out in the world isn't only an inevitable part of creation but also a necessary one.

http://blog.redbubble.com/2014/04/daily-inspiration-agnes-ma...

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/31/agnes-mart...