• Should I work on my startup on the side, and grow it slowly?
• Should I take investment and go full-time sooner?

"It’s difficult to find successful companies where founders didn’t work 80+ hours and took longer than four years to get to $1M ARR. If you're two years in and you still need a day job then by definition it doesn’t have good fundamentals. I usually think of "$10k/month/founder" as a rough measure of whether you're ready for full-time. Saying that should take three years is wrong. It's hard to find that companies that live and took that long."

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Show notes

• Podcast in 2019!
• Justin's original tweet
• Blog post: Can you bootstrap on the side?
• Watch this interview on YouTube
• Jason Cohen on Twitter
• WPEngine recently raised $250 million

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