I'm curious about how you juggled entrepreneurship and active deployment. Were there any interesting challenges, or did you ever meet someone doing similar things? Did you feel the need to hide what you were doing from your CO?
I never hid the fact I was working on side businesses, but also didn't go out of my way to tell coworkers. Don't think my CO's knew about it. I knew a few other officers who had side businesses, though not in the software space.