Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. If you currently have a secure job at a big company you probably have a nice healthcare plan, a steady, dependable paycheck and colleagues that you hopefully enjoy working with. The early days of a start-up include lots of sleepless nights, no health plan, no pay, and lots of alone time as you build out the early stages of your vision. As I can attest to, entrepreneurship puts hair on your chest. Fortunately, it hasn’t taken any from my head. Yet.
In the above interview, I talk to Sabir Semerkant about leaving a big company to start his own business.
I always ask entrepreneurs what business productivity tools they use in hopes that others may learn what works for different people and why they chose the tools they use for everything from project management to accounting, sales-force automation, customer relationship management, document creation, back-up, storage, Web hosting, etc.
Below you can learn about the tools Sabir chose for the early stages of his business.
Business Productivity Tools For Startups
I asked Sabir what productivity tools he uses to manage his business. In no particular order, he mentions:
- Google Docs / Mail: for storing and sharing documents and email;
- Microsoft Office: for creating documents;
- Quickbooks: for accounting;
- Basecamp: for project management;
- Dropbox: for storing, syncing, and, sharing files online;
- Backupify: for daily automatic backups, archiving;
- Carbonite: for backing up files on your PC or Mac;
