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I knew that 60 hours was going to get dinged from someone. Trust me, I know there are many out there that would dream of only working 60 hours/week. This is my bill paying job, not my business. I'm not able to find the time/energy to to pursue that area.

While your points are seemingly applicable only to the startup crowd, I can directly translate everything you shared here into my bill paying job.

For that, and the embedded sense of hope, thanks.

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For what it's worth, he is referring to the bill-paying job when he says "only 60 hours?". And he has a successful product on the side, so much so that he's quitting the day job. Pretty sure the intent wasn't oneupmanship there so much as gallows humor.

But really, it's the reader's choice how to interpret something like that. I prefer to look at differently, and think, "there are people with jobs that require more time o them than mine--leaving them similar amounts of discretionary time as I have--and they build a company with it! Awesome!".

I suspect I'll have to be making about double the day job in order to pay for health care, etc. But first task is to start the product; its a bit premature for me to plan my, ahem, "exit strategy".

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