[jasonkester]

It doesn't have to be that way. It certainly wasn't for me.

The cool thing about running your own business is that you can run it any way you like. Yes, you can work 120 hour weeks, lose your wife, and have your heart attack at 45. But you can also work one 8 hour day per week, with a quick 10 minute email spin on the other weekdays, and spend the rest of your time enjoying your life.

Both of those routes will get your product shipped, fit it to the market, and ramp you up to a full time living if you do it right.

The idea that you have to work yourself into the ground is just a story they tell people to scare them off. The reality is that entrepreneurship isn't particularly hard, particularly stressful, or particularly scary. Unless you want it to be.

[tim333]

Having had a look at your website I have to say the whole going off the beach in Asia and doing some coding stuff seems quite a good idea.