Ask HN: Have you ever cofounded two startup's at once? How'd it go?
My question is this, I'm 33, no wife/kids, no mortgage, and highly driven; but would it be sane to be involved with two projects? I am the ceo of social project and as it's my first startup and first time leading such a project, I want to have the best chance for success. Likewise I would need to figure out my role for second project but so far I have acted like a mix between leader & developer in coordinating other contractors, developing on backend/client, and interfacing with company backing it. I'm having a hard time figuring out what approach to take if I choose to be involved in 2nd project and also have FOMO of ditching it entirely. I'm also interested in approach from angle of myself and partner from first startup as a team etc and if it makes sense to spread the risk around some in two projects?
Anyone ever have similar situation? Advice? Thanks!
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 13.7 ms ] threadEven with a very low maintenance mode on my first startup, it's insane. Actually just one startup creation and bootstrapping is insane, so what happens is I just don't have time to manage and improve the first startup, yet it «kinda» works because it's a niche, with no competition, and my partner agreed to manage most of it while I am «less» available, but it really is a nightmare and it puts the business at risk.
I know it's hard to choose («to choose is to renounce»), but my advice would be to focus on just one of them.