I am married with a 3.75 year old daughter (she insists on the .75).
The two main issues (of course) are money and time.
The money side is "easy": the key to success is to have enough money to cover the time spent on the startup. If money gets tight, the startup will be one of the targets of much negative emotion by your s.o., yourself being the other main target. This is not a comfortable situation.
The time side is hard! I wish I knew the answer to this. Talking about the startup when you're not feverishly working on it can be a bad thing when patience wears thin on time spent on the startup. What is helping alot is total focus on s.o./family when not working, and then working at times unseen. (My recent strategy has been getting up pretty early to get in extra work before everyone wakes up.) What has also been very helpful is getting finished. An almost finished startup is much easier to imagine succeeding than lines of code on a screen. So launch ASAP.
Good luck, and don't do the startup unless you absolutely have to do it - thats my excuse.
The two main issues (of course) are money and time.
The money side is "easy": the key to success is to have enough money to cover the time spent on the startup. If money gets tight, the startup will be one of the targets of much negative emotion by your s.o., yourself being the other main target. This is not a comfortable situation.
The time side is hard! I wish I knew the answer to this. Talking about the startup when you're not feverishly working on it can be a bad thing when patience wears thin on time spent on the startup. What is helping alot is total focus on s.o./family when not working, and then working at times unseen. (My recent strategy has been getting up pretty early to get in extra work before everyone wakes up.) What has also been very helpful is getting finished. An almost finished startup is much easier to imagine succeeding than lines of code on a screen. So launch ASAP.
Good luck, and don't do the startup unless you absolutely have to do it - thats my excuse.