Do university stuff during university. You have plenty of time after for other things.

A little bit. My company is too small to need my product but we use it even where we don’t need it in order to dogfood it.

Sounds like you’re choosing your startup over your wife right now. Is that what you want?

I’m no relationship expert, but something like quitting your job and working long hours sounds like something you two should have decided on together.

In a startup, the titles are very loose.

In the beginning the CTO is basically a developer.

As you grow to a few more devs, you’re a tech lead and manager.

As you get to maybe 10-20 technical employees, you’re more like an engineering director, but also the company is large enough that you’re doing more high level executive things.

Then as you grow even more, you’ll become more of a full on c-level exec.

That being said, some people are good at being CTO only at certain company sizes. It’s not uncommon for a CTO to become an engineering manager and a new CTO to be hired as the company grows and needs someone different in that role.

I’m seeing a lot of QuickBooks answers. Is there a point where you might switch from a smaller player like Freshbooks or Wave and move to QuickBooks?

You’re trying to build what is called a two sided marketplace. It’s very difficult.

You need lots of jobseekers first to attract companies to post jobs. You need lots of jobs first to attract jobseekers. It’s basically impossible to start from zero.

A common strategy is to hack your way into having one side to acquire the other side. Companies like Uber paid drivers crazy rates when they signed up even though nobody was requesting rides on the platform yet.

For you, you can post jobs yourself. Go find relevant jobs and add them to your job board. Then you have something to market to jobseekers.