This article, authored by Tony Wright, is a nice breakdown of the traits of two types of entrepreneurs; builder entrepreneurs and business entrepreneurs. Builder entrepreneurs are those who “designed, coded, played sysadmin, and played all sorts of other production roles for their startups”. Tony goes on to write that business entrepreneurs don’t “really have a useful role to play in the very earliest stages of a software startup”.
After reading the article and browsing around Tony’s site a little, I found a cool product that Tony’s current startup is working on, called RescueTime. It is the Google Analytics and Mint.com of “what I spend my time on when on the computer”. RescueTime calls itself “ridiculously easy time management software”. Just as in Google Analytics you see nice dashboards and graphs of your website visitor statistics and just as in Mint you can easily understand where your money is going without doing much at all, RescueTime allows a user to download a plugin (Mac or PC), the plugin then aggregates data while you are using your computer and with no extra work involved at all, RescueTime shows you charts and graphs about where you are spending your time. If you often complain about not getting things done during the day because of X, Y and Z. Use RescueTime to find what they are.
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