Stupid Startuper

Good morning,

I received a comment made by Povilas about his expectations towards content in my blog. The main idea (as I heard it) is: you shouldn`t write about yourself, you should write more about the startups world, tips and tricks,… And he has a point here. The reason of blogging here should be not to show off. It should be to share experience.

And actually it is sharing of experience just maybe I set a bit too high requirement for myself to write each day twice. Why I did that? Well in different startups (mine as well) I see quite much actions which are not planned. Or planned for the wrong time. And personally see this as an issue: “even if you want to use the opportunity, you shouldn`t close/cancel what you have done so far”. So to find this needed balance is the biggest issue for me. And I believe for quite many self funded startups.

Another thing is the different nature of startups, their experieces, etc. Remember yourself in uni/school. Any of you might seen the situation where the colleague have studied less and got the higher grade then you did. Here you could draw a line by saying “He got lucky / he had the experience”. I would suggest to start analyzing the situation and start looking for the small bits you could use. Continue reading →

Hi,

Started working from 9, how ever only now writing the daily morning blogpost. As I mentioned in a previous blogpost, yesterday had two glasses of beer. Well guess what – I became alcohol intolerant and even now feeling slow, a bit dizzy. It is a sign that I am getting older^^. Lets move on with daily planing:

Payed works:

• Preparation for the new W project (already done)
• First design improvements for the W
• Design review for G project

JobRely:

• Front page finalization (module rewriting)

Other:

• Two meetings + beer with classmates.. Must deliver my promises… And not to get drunk ^^

That`s all. Feeling better so must use my energy to catch up and erase the slow start of the day : -)

Good morning,

Spent already an hour working and forgot to blog! This is not the way to start my day. I want to create a habit for myself : -) So writing now:

Payed work:

• Updates to G, base platform setup for G and first batch of test products.
• Drupal review.
• Updates for UD + kick into their ass for the communication issues.
• Clients hunt ^^.

JobRely:

• Physical meeting – preparation +beer.
• Updates for backend  listing according to Rūta comments.

That`s all, folks (for now) : -)

Good Monday morning!

The new week have started so before planing the current week and day it is important to reflect what has been done. As it is not something really interesting for you I`ll just say that day cutting into parts have worked for me to increase my productivity a bit. Also I feel less often that part of my work doesn`t get as much attention as needed. How ever I will need to learn to switch parts of the day when meetings with clients are at the second part.

For those of you wondering what did happen yesterday (Sunday): I decided that on weekends I`ll blog whenever I feel ready for that. And that one blogpost is more then enough. Therefor my Saturday post (read it if you haven`t!) was all you received for the weekend. For Sunday I did some work on the clients project, went out mushrooms picking, had a great meal and spend more quality time with my GF. At the evening, of course, watched basketball and lost the toto :/ At the very last game.

Todays plan is simple: to be as productive as possible:

Payed work:

• find the agreement on G contract,
• review the first design works for the G,
• analyze eCommerce solution request (new lead),
• review the Drupal solution request (new lead)

JoRely:

• weekly meeting preparation
• team tasks review
• new batch of testing
• development unfinished from last week

So for now I think it is enough, it is time to start working!

Good morning. This morning post will be short and without longer sharing about the personal experience. Have some urgent works so saving my time. Not to waste your time, shortly before evening:

Casual startup change members, cofounders can be changed as well. So check with whom into bed work you are going. And run a “trial” before promising any shares. A person that is good at payed job is not always the same good on voluntary work with a salary far far far away. I experienced that. Not once.

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