Steve Varsano on starting a business: pick an idea you're obsessed with, because you'll work constantly. He warns the round-the-clock grind across time zones and holidays will strain your relationships until the company can run without you.
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How do you decide what business to create or run? The first thing you have to do to decide to create a business is come up with an idea. And you have to have an idea that you are really, really passionate about. I mean, it is a round-the-clock kind of thing. Your personal relationships are definitely subject to damage because you really have to put so much effort into building a business. Just because time zones occur or different people's holidays or weekends, it doesn't mean that business is not still ongoing everywhere in the world. So you have to keep going. I'm not saying it goes forever that way, but until you really get the business up up and running and put in a good infrastructure, you really need to put everything you have into that business.