Can you really have a successful career and a successful family?Maybe.Can you have have both of those things when you work at a startup? That’s much more difficult.
“There’s nothing you can do at a startup to lessen the volume of work or smooth out the emotional cycles, and being a parent is completely consuming and erratic on top of that. So it’s basically a double startup!” says Hashable CMO and mother Emily Hickey.
We asked 10 startup executives who are also awesome parents how they balance everything. From Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti (who has 2-and-a-half-year-old twins), here’s their advice.
By Alyson Shontell | Jan. 8, 2012, 8:28 AM Reposted from BusinessInsider.com
