How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your Job
I highly recommend considering consulting&#x2F;freelancing when looking at starting a company. Hourly rates generally price in an expectation of not having work full-time, so you work less than 40 hours&#x2F;week to begin with. Drop an hour or two of commute every day on top of that and it&#x27;s a big win in terms of time that can be spent on a startup or side-project.<p>Of course consulting requires more in terms of people skills - you&#x27;re basically &quot;interviewing&quot; every time you find a new client. But I think in some sense that&#x27;s a hump to get over either way - there aren&#x27;t many startups that don&#x27;t benefit from founders having soft skills.<p>Sort of an orthogonal point to the article, of course.