Distributing Start-Upping

A new post below by Gavin O’Carroll, who is about to start-up Rememble.com

I am a time-management nerd. Or should I say a life-management nerd. I’m starting a new business (actually almost two). I’m pretty anxious about this as it goes.

There’s a book, a great great book that allows me to sleep at nights and actually be able to hold a concentrated conversation on the weekends. That book is Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen, and it was one of the most blogged about books of 2005 according to the New York Times.

Basically it recommends that we create comeplete lists of everything we have promised ourselves that we’ll do in our lives, and that we organise this into contexts. Like, Things to do While I’m At Home, On The Internet, etc. This helps develops a whole set of single next steps to move on every project in your life. Sounds mental. But it’s not, it’s a life saver.

I’ve had an idea – a piece of software that helps small businesses do this, and help them organise tasks realated to skill-sets. Then enabled a groups of companies with different skills-sets to swap tasks, using a central repository that each to do what they are best at, for each other. This ways they help one another to develop faster and cover their weaknesses thus reducing their risks. For start-ups, this would be cool.

Anyone fancy helping me develop it? We could call it OpenBusinessGTD

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