Comments on: Startups and the 4 Hour Work Week http://regulargeek.com/2008/08/20/startups-and-the-4-hour-work-week/ Where programming, the internet and social media collide. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Virtual Help | Life is a Venture http://regulargeek.com/2008/08/20/startups-and-the-4-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-956 Virtual Help | Life is a Venture Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:00:29 +0000 http://regulargeek.com/?p=100#comment-956 [...] has a great review of The 4-Hour Workweek. Some [...] [...] has a great review of The 4-Hour Workweek. Some [...]

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]]> By: robdiana http://regulargeek.com/2008/08/20/startups-and-the-4-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-630 robdiana Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:38:41 +0000 http://regulargeek.com/?p=100#comment-630 Nicole, thanks for reading! Elance was just an example, one take from the book. Freelancers and sites like elance are really good resources when the need arises. Automation is huge for a startup (and it is discussed a few points after the assistant thing). I am not a big fan of the virtual assistant, but it is an interesting idea to try out and it is a simple form of outsourcing. In general, I think we all want to "do things better/easier/smarter/faster" so any advantage we can get we need to take it. I absolutely agree with your last point, any tools/partners that can do things that are not your core competency are immensely useful and great time-savers. Nicole, thanks for reading!
Elance was just an example, one take from the book. Freelancers and sites like elance are really good resources when the need arises. Automation is huge for a startup (and it is discussed a few points after the assistant thing). I am not a big fan of the virtual assistant, but it is an interesting idea to try out and it is a simple form of outsourcing. In general, I think we all want to “do things better/easier/smarter/faster” so any advantage we can get we need to take it. I absolutely agree with your last point, any tools/partners that can do things that are not your core competency are immensely useful and great time-savers.

]]> By: Nicole Simon http://regulargeek.com/2008/08/20/startups-and-the-4-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-627 Nicole Simon Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:04:17 +0000 http://regulargeek.com/?p=100#comment-627 For testing out I actually suggest 'get a freelancer' rather than elance - elance is way more on the expensive side. Also for startups they should more think about automation as a way of eliminating steps of what to do - just 'get an assistant' is too broad. Looking throught the book and similar threads on the net one should be able to start thinking about 'how can I streamline my live better'. In the end it may not even come out to be a virtual assistant but about getting more aware of how to manage / process tasks. :) Startups have a lot on their plate, so they should be looking for areas where a task is easily defined and outsourcing partners have exact options for it. Like setting up the tools for the blog, monitoring google alerts for mentions of the company and compile the clipping etc etc. For testing out I actually suggest ‘get a freelancer’ rather than elance - elance is way more on the expensive side.

Also for startups they should more think about automation as a way of eliminating steps of what to do - just ‘get an assistant’ is too broad.

Looking throught the book and similar threads on the net one should be able to start thinking about ‘how can I streamline my live better’. In the end it may not even come out to be a virtual assistant but about getting more aware of how to manage / process tasks. :)

Startups have a lot on their plate, so they should be looking for areas where a task is easily defined and outsourcing partners have exact options for it. Like setting up the tools for the blog, monitoring google alerts for mentions of the company and compile the clipping etc etc.

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