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This post is a collection of what I see as the most important questions that anyone who develops an internet initiative nowadays needs to find answer to. The regular questions can be answered by lawyers and accountants.
1. What is the optimal timing to allow investors to invest their money in your startup?
2. What is the optimal marketing plan for your website ?
3. How to forecast incomes when your financial model is fuzzy ?
There are good chances that someone has already thought of that idea, or maybe even done it … I think it can be a great success. In contrast to those shows where the participants compete on a celebrity, here there is a celebrity that truly wants to find a partner. In every episode he/ she goes on a date with someone new, that doesn’t know who he/ she is going to meet. Of course the participant is not a celebrity himself. The celeb must choose in the end of each episode if he wants to continue dating with that person. If it goes beyond date no. 2 the game is over and a new celeb series begins. All of the episodes must be taken prior to broadcasting, of course.
OK. You told your boss that you quit working since you start your own company. Now what ? this is a list of essential steps that help me to stay focused. I hope it will help others too.
1. Flatter yourself every day. You did the right thing for you. You followed your heart 100 fuckin’ percent. You walked it all the way. You’ll definitely have something to talk about with your grandchildren. You bastard.
2. Get into shape. First: it’s healthy. Second: it motivates you and it gives you more vitality. It’s scientific. Build yourself a training program and follow it. I bought myself a heart monitor and built myself a systematic “shape inrease” program on the internet. After each training I report the data and watch proudly my improvement in a graph.
3. Don’t stay in your pajama (or whatever you wear at night). You have a new job now, and more demanding than ever. Treat it as such. In your new workplace there’s no dress code. You can go to work wearing casual.
4. Manage your time. It’s precious now more than ever. Stay focused on your tasks. You’ll have to document them every day somewhere for that. Swallow the ugliest frog first every morning.
5. Separate your work area from your sleep area. I still think how exactly to do that, since I live with a roomate in a small apartment. But I’ll find a workout. You too.
6. Wake up as if you were working in a regular workplace. You know what ? You deserve an additional 30 minutes of sleep. After all, you don’t have to spend time for transportaion.
7. Learn how to cook simple meals. Otherwise, it will be very expenssive, and less healthy.
8. Dedicate time for leisure every day. The fact that you work from home doesn’t mean that you should work 12 hours a day and stay up at night.
9. Measure your daily abstractions from work. Whether it’s TV, digg, dating websites, cigarette break, coffee break, noon nap, nooner - it doesn’t help you much to achieve your goals ! You must (at least) be aware of how much time is consumed on this stuff.
10. Read this blog. It’s good for you. Consider writing one. It will help you to have a good perspective and will remind you why you’re here.
More to come.
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