Maintaining the necessary motivation to work on your start-up is one thing, but how do you actually combine it with your studies and your social life? To be able to succeed in most things, you have to dedicate your time and eventually spend less time for activities that are less relevant to your success in studies and start-up. Dropping activities that you like to do is not always fun, but if you really want to succeed with both your start-up while also passing all your exams, this will be a necessary step.
As for Yorick, he decided to quit his part-time job at the Pre-University programme of the UT to focus more on developing Hops & Grains. He mentioned that the combination of studying, entrepreneurship and working part-time was too much. It was a decision that Yorick did not regret, even though he enjoyed his part-time job. But he even more enjoyed weekends at the brewery, where the best achievement was his start-up’s products.
Even though working on a start-up requires many hours of work, it does not mean that your study progress will be neglected because of it. Plan your time, there are many free tools out there that might help, for example Google calendar. Also, make a list of priorities, a free and user-friendly program for that is Trello. This allows you to still have enough focus on the start-up, while at the same time accomplishing your study goals.