Tony's really good blog post about bootstrapping the financing of a web 2.0 startup. I like his definition of the 3 milestones your company has to reach.

I'm using two tools from our StartPad tenants - RescueTime and Chatterous. I think they're both really cool and useful.

Some great mentions and a quote from StartPad tenants, RescueTime, in the New York Times this weekend.

Quoted: A typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail program more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times, according to one measure by RescueTime, a company that analyzes computer habits. The company, which draws its data from 40,000 people who have tracking software on their computers, found that on average the worker also stops at 40 Web sites over the course of the day.
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“We are hunter-gatherers at the core,” said Tony Wright, chief executive of RescueTime, who is also a member of the new nonprofit group. “We open e-mail and hit ‘send and receive’ to see if something interesting has come in.”

RescueTime gets TechCrunch coverage using aggregate data they've collected (proving they not only have a great application, but are masters of developing content with high link-bait).

I've personally worked on products that account for 22% of total desktop usage (Outlook, Excel, Messenger). I wonder if the other product I co-founded (SharePoint) would also make the chart if RescueTime could recognize the various URL's as all being SharePoint web sites).

Kim Komando talks about ResuceTime on her (radio) talk show today.

RescueTime is one of the featured companies using GetSatisfaction for customer support. Over 412 topics have been posted so far!

Quoted: View topics about products and services from RescueTime

NYT Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/technology/25satisfaction.html?_r=1&ex=1204606800&en=224260911ede7e4b&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin

RescueTime is the latest StartPad tenant! They just got back from Y Combinator and are now back in Seattle.

I love the cool widgets they have in their About page that uses RescueTime to show how all the team members are spending their time!

Seattle-based startup, RescueTime, got some more TechCrunch coverage for the upcoming Y Combinator Demo Day (March 18th).

Quoted: The fledgling startups listed below will present their ideas and initial products to investors at this spring's Y Combinator Demo Day on March ...