Tuesday, November 5

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Building a Startup in 45 Minutes Per Day While Deployed to Iraq
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Building a Startup in 45 Minutes Per Day While Deployed to Iraq

You may one day find yourself in a position where you’re eager to work on a startup but limited by the amount of time you can put into it due to a day job, family or other obligations. In this post, I would like to share with you all the story behind Lean Domain Search, a domain name generator that I built in about 45 minutes per day during a 5-month deployment to the Middle East. If you’re struggling to find time to put into your startup, I hope this convinces you that you can accomplish a lot over time by putting a small amount of work into it each day. In the summer of 2011, I was a 26-year-old freshly pinned on the captain in the Air Force serving as a project manager at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts. I was 4 years into my 5-year service Academy commitment which meant that...