
Start your home business on the weekend!
Some say weekends are for relaxing, sleeping in or traveling. But if you’re a full-time employee and you dream of entrepreneurship, weekends can be for that, too. Take those 48 weekend hours (and, let’s be honest, those precious weekday evening hours, too), maximize your efficiency, and build your startup.
Brian Eddy and Chad Ronnebaum did that very thing when they built Q3 Innovations, a product design, development and distribution company that specializes in the personal safety market. These Eagan, Minnesota, entrepreneurs started in 1999 when both had full-time jobs–in fact, Eddy, 30, a lawyer, just recently left his law firm to work on the business full time, while Ronnebaum, 30, still works full time in the pharmaceutical industry. Friends since the sixth grade, the pair decided that even though they both had successful careers, they wanted to own a business and bring products like the Alcohawk, a digital breath alcohol screener, to consumers.
During their six-year startup phase, says Eddy, “We worked about 50 hours a week at our careers and about 40 to 50 hours a week at our business.” A typical weekday for Eddy was getting up at 7 a.m., doing business activities until 8:30 or 9 a.m., then heading to the office. After getting off work at 6 p.m., he spent about an hour with family and went into entrepreneur mode for the evening and most of the weekend.
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