Ask HN: Who are the most efficient Founders? How do they manage their time?

1 points by blairanderson 7y ago ↗ HN

I have two businesses that are growing modestly, maybe a couple percentage points a month. I have 4 employees. Bills are paid. Some months are slower but I don't so much worry.

I'm trying to figure out how to efficiently GROW.

some tasks I do:

- helping my employees grow our current accounts - help write pitches - help with account optimizations - help without - get more accounts - google advertising - facebook advertising - blogging - Do HR/Bookkeeping/admin(this is only like 3-5% of my time)

Does anyone have a better way to visualize all my POSSIBLE tasks so that I can prioritize them?

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tlb 7y ago ↗

Get rid of one of the businesses, and make the other one grow twice as fast.

One business growing 10%/month greatly exceeds the impact of two businesses growing 5%/month. Projecting those numbers 5 years out, your total business would be 8x larger [0].

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  >>> (0.5 * 1.1**(12*5)) / (1.05**(12*5))
  8.150292022020569