On the 29th of September I gave a presentation at the Bio-manager course of the "Hungarian Biotechnology Association" http://www.hungarianbiotech.org/html_hun/BioManager.htm

As an entrepreneur you never have enough time, so if you make the jump you better learn how to do things more efficiently. In the past years I have compiled a list of free or inexpensive tools that can help entrepreneurs increase their productivity. What follows is a list of 10 tools that I have found very useful. I will add more detailed content later about the individual tools and I will keep posting about new productivity tools I encounter.

This post is a follow up on a presentation I gave on the 29th of September at the Biomanager course of the Hungarian Biotech Association.

In my presentation I talked about 6 problems you face as a starting entrepreneur:

1. How to keep track of and timely answer on emails you receive at different addresses

multiple accounts in G-mail

http://mail.google.com

2. How to collaborate with people that have other activities and that are often in different locations

Google documents

http://docs.google.com/

Google calendar

http://www.google.com/calendar

Vyew

http://vyew.com

3. How to learn “hands on” skills like sales and management that you didn't learn at school

blogs

the blogs I mentioned
http://www.fiercebiotech.com/
http://www.biocompare.com/
http://blog.changethis.com/changethis_newsletter
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/
http://brandautopsy.typepad.com/brandautopsy/
http://www.biotech-weblog.com/

podcasts

the podcasts I mentioned
http://www.nature.com/podcast/index.html
http://salesroundup.com/
http://www.manager-tools.com/
http://www.stevepavlina.com/
http://www.escapepod.org/

RSS

RSS readers - Google reader

http://www.google.com/reader

Podcast downloader – Juice (or I-tunes)

http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/

4. How to communicate inexpensively with people that are spread all over the globe

Skype

http://skype.com

free teleconferencing

http://www.freeconferencecall.com

5. How to get information on/get in contact with decision makers

XING

https://www.xing.com/

LinkedIn

http://www.linkedin.com

Zoominfo

http://www.zoominfo.com/

6. How to build a website that you can update timely with information on your rapidly changing company

Drupal

http://drupal.org/