Editor’s note: Avelist CEO Jody Porowski writes for the website Medium about the strategies and sacrifices she’s made to grow her company after leaving a job at SAS. ExitEvent has the details.

RALEIGH, N.C. – Avelist CEO Jody Porowski realized long before most entrepreneurs that she couldn’t spend all her time fundraising. That to build a successful business, she had to focus the majority of her time on the building.

And that’s why she made a bold decision two years ago, when she was a full-time employee at SAS with cash to spare. She’d invest in a home, and when the time was right, she’d turn that real estate play into a business-building one.

And so when March 2014 came along and Avelist needed quick cash to market and grow the product, she sold her home in Raleigh’s highly-desirable North Hills neighborhood. She sold the rest of her belongings on Craigslist. And she moved in with Mom and Dad.

She needed to double down on the most important thing in her life right now—her business. And she documents the decision, and the lessons she learned from it all, in a now trending post on Medium.

She wrote: “The way I see it, many people work hard to buy their dream house. I sold a house so I could have my dream job.”

The full post can be read at ExitEvent.