I'm pulling together a fabulous panel including:

Elisa Camahort Page - co-founder/COO of BlogHer!! (www.blogher.com)

Karen Bantuveris, Austin founder & CEO of VolunteerSpot, knows firsthand what ‘juggle’ means. She’s built VolunteerSpot from the ground up while running a successful management development and executive coaching business, and being active in her daughter’s school PTO Board and Scout troop.

More names to come...

Aruni

Just filed a DBA (www.TheDetailPerson.com) last week to expand my freelance practice defining and leading teams to build sites and hosted applications. It is no coincidence that the logo I designed for my business cards is a hand juggling the business name and three balls. Am greatly looking forward to inspiration and tips for developing this business while simultaneously sustaining myself through my "billables".

Pat

Aruni, this panel idea fascinates me. I want to know what others like me are going through. Thanks for putting it out there!

In addition to a founder of BlogHer and founder of VolunteerSpot, we also have Thom Singer on the panel.
Thom Singer is the director of business development for Austin based vcfo. Additionally he is the author of four books about the power of business relationships and is a professional speaker. With the support of his employer, he successfully manages his job and his own business, speaking to companies around the country on how to network.

Another speaker: Jeremy Bencken and his wife, Katie, founded ApartmentRatings.com in 2000 out of their one bedroom apartment in Mountain View. They bootstrapped the site while attending business school at UT-Austin and then during full-time jobs for 4 years before selling the company to Internet Brands in 2007. Along the way they grew traffic to over 12M unique visitors per year (without an ad budget), built a base of advertisers, fought off frivolous lawsuits, and got their site featured on NPR Marketplace, and in stories in the NY Times and AP.

Great idea! So many of us started this way.

What a great idea! I am currently building a web business after hours, too. Thank you for suggesting this!

Another fabulous speaker: Gretchen Heber is CEO and co-founder of NaturallyCurly.com, a multi-dimensional company for people with curly hair she founded with business partner Michelle Breyer. She and Michelle founded NaturallyCurly while holding full time jobs as a journalist for the Austin daily newspaper.

This is going to be a fun one.

Aruni, you already know this is also a most RESPONSIBLE, realistic way to foundation a new business as well as a remarkably common -- though little discussed -- approach. All seven of my businesses within seven different (though usually directly related) industries have been formed this way. I've grown to respect it highly - plus look back on each development process it required with awe and lasting pleasure.

It's a lot like a well-designed working out plan -- there is a considerable "stretch" at play to do this successfully, but the resilience and endurance -- plus PATIENCE it build. It is then the owner's to call on forever. All this gained is also is generative and transferable into many other areas of life. Over time, it will gradually help "grow every owner UP!" -- a most useful asset in customer support and eventual staff-management and leadership.

I hope someone on the panel will address the nature of the quality habits and practices then serve within this type of self-management under the usual stretch of the REST of life demands. Many of the requirements of preparing for a triathlon, for example, apply here. Then the actual performance (as in literally doing the work of the new business in real time) becomes a chance for gratification vs labor because of how and what you've built up over time to bring with yourself to it.

Aruni is a seasoned entrepreneur (ex-CEO/co-founder of Isochron), who is working on a new start-up company called BabbleSoft all the while managing a day job at the Austin Technology Incubator and being the mother of two children. I think she's the perfect person to speak about this topic, and I'm sure many of us future entrepreneurs would love to hear about this topic.

Thanks for all the fabulous comments above! We have a new panel member:

David Altounian - founder of Motion Computing. He left Dell and founded Motion. He then started iTaggit and Motion recently called him back to take on the President/COO role and in the meantime he is still working on iTaggit and teaching a class at St. Edwards on the side!

Great idea!

This sounds like a really great panel. I know I have been busy with a startup, freelance, and school, and I would love to hear about everyones experiences.

Sounds like a great panel. If it makes it, I will be sure to attend.

Great idea! I can so relate--by day, I'm a freelance nonfiction writer, blogger, artist, and web designer. By night, I pound away at my novel. I'd love to hear what this panel has to say!

Soooo many people can relate to this issue!

I am hoping this would be my first year attending SXSW and I certainly won't want to miss this panel.

Looking forward to attending this session...

Great idea, Aruni! I would love to attend.

Thanks for the comments and votes everyone. I'm crossing my fingers that this panel gets selected since I'd also love to learn from others who are doing the same thing I'm trying to do!