What do you think about running two startups at once? And how do you split your work time?

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I had a discussion with one of my friends about running two startups at once. And we are both a little surprised to read the successful stories of launching several startups at the same time. 24 hours a day don't enough for us to build one startup while others are launching three companies at the same time.

I'm not ruling out that it's possible. But I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this.

Vuk Bajcetic · Accepted Answer

In most cases, I assume it would be super hard. 
Unless you have some good teams that can take the load off you.

Murali Gottumukkala · Answer

I think unless until u are of elon musk caliber, it is extremely difficult to run 2 successful startups..

Richard Gao · Answer

Depends on how big the startups are and what you do in them.

2 blogs/newsletters, influencer accounts? Definitely doable. In fact, it may be optimal to run more than that!

2 manufacturing businesses (giving an extreme example). Probably not.

For me, I'm putting all my effort on marketing evoke-app.com (may startup), so it's infeasible starting another one as well

Kornel Grunwald · Answer

Super hard, @crftvideo. The reason is that you need to pull your A-game all the time. If you have a massive runway... however, you risk every other team working on what you do to take you over.

What do you think about running two startups at once? And how do you split your work time?

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