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The first 100 days of a new presidential term is considered a benchmark to measure the early success of a president.

Being that today is the first day of my startup after moving to the DC-Metro area, I'm starting my own "100 days" (http://blog.seqcentral.com). In addition, I thought I'd encourage other startups to join me in promoting/enacting their own "100 Days" especially those in the DC area, in the biotech market, or attending Techcrunch in SF next month.

Cheers!

I've finally found the source of my frustration with the virtual rolodex: creating the contact.

A fantastic feature of the physical rolodex is that one needs to simply place the business card in the rolodex to "create" a contact.

Since email is a dominant form of communication and source of new contacts, does anyone know of a simple way to parse the email signature to create a contact?

(Personally, I don't care if the virtual rolodex is 37Signals Highrise, Apple AddressBook, or Gmail Contacts because I'd be willing to switch if I could create/sync contacts with a "click".)

For those of you hiring contractors to perform work for your startup, what are some tips you have for managing them?

In trying to not micro-manage their progress, I've recently ended up with one contract extending from 2 weeks to 4 weeks, and another that needed to be canceled after 2 weeks of no progress.

From their resumes, these contractors were qualified, but what recommendations do you have to help me make sure that the job is completed and delivered on schedule?