Ev Williams responds to some heckling about his new company Odeo, where the trons are apparently not not working like hamsters on the treadmill:

[from evhead: Mr Gutman: Second-time entrepreneurs.]

I firmly believe that the extreme imbalance so pervasively assumed to be a required component of startup life is detrimental to effectiveness in the long run. What I think is much more key is focus.

I agree with Ev. We are running crazy hard at Corante, but the things that jump up to bite us are not the number of hours in the day, but what happens when we get off target. For example, we have been swept into a few 'collaborative partnerships" in the past year, where we wound up putting too much time into projects that weren't owned by us, where we couldn't control events, and ultimately we had to write off the time investments involved. A focus issue, not a time issue.