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Comment on Ask HN: Is success impossible for a part-time startup?

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Part time works if your idea is realistic for part time. Is it easy to implement, easy to scale? Does it have a core of good functionality?

I recommend reading 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris. You need a strong hype/BS filter, but he has some good suggestions about time management. In particular, there is a chapter about how to reduce the number of hours you have to put in at your day job without reducing your effectiveness. For example, if you work from home, you reduce interruptions and meetings. He tells how introduce telecommuting without your boss realizing what is happening.

Thanks for the comment. I was wary of that book because I heard it described as a way to become a sort of uncaring-manager-at-a-distance while getting rich quick.

Since there's more to it than that, I'll give it another look.

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