Staying productive and getting things done are very popular questions these days – especially for those who are working at home. There are numerous various methods and practices, but I will put here a little advice, what I found working for me, three types of to-do’s – three steps:
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My way of organizing to-do lists and calendar
November 17th, 2008Business failure reasons
September 29th, 2008Today I stumbled upon a Jason Calacanis’ post to his email mailing list called “(The) Startup Depression” (I’ve put a link to a Google search because the original post was removed from TechCrunch). Some thoughts I liked the most:
There are three reasons why businesses can fail:
- it’s a bad idea
- bad execution
- outside factors
Examine your business with these three filters to see where you’re at.
Outside factors are the things you cannot control, but Execution and Ideas are the things that you should review and re-estimate very often if you want your startup to succeed. Here’s how Calacanis ofers to do this:
The right people
September 15th, 2008This morning I stumbled upon a nice article named “Elements of a Successful Start-up“. Author overviews various aspects of start-up success discussed in blogosphere. Lots of interesting and useful tips.
I like this quote from TechCrunch’s post about hiring right people:
The most important part of hiring correctly is to not hire the wrong people. The second most important part of hiring correctly is to hire the right people. What that means is that it is better to not hire anyone at all if you can’t find the right person.
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The right people are the ones that really, really want to work with you. You can tell they’re excited to be a part of the team. They actively look for problems to solve, and then solve them. This is a personality type that is very easy to spot once you know what to look for – they have fire in their eyes. They’re warriors.
I totally agree with this. I have seen lots of interesting projects/ideas die because of hiring wrong people.
