Before even deciding to start a company, meetings and conversations take place to lead you to the idea in the first place. Once the company has been formed, though, you must decide how formal or informal to make meetings. Time can be a very valuable resource (even though it might be one of your more copious resources of the moment), but it's still important to use for creating rather than only thinking, scheming, and talking. This article details some important guidelines for your meetings.

Avery and I have decided to keep our meetings and their schedules informal for now. As long as we keep in sync once in a while we should be fine. The important fact is that we have individual tasks we can assign to ourselves to we can asynchronously work on deliverables to help move the company and our projects forward. Not only is this important since we have day jobs and other things we're doing, but we're on other sides of the world and separated by a 12 hour time difference!

Keep these factors in mind, it's important our informal meetings at least adhere to some guidlines perhaps:

• Keep in sync - It's important to make sure we're working toward the same goals and in the same direction so the company progresses forward.
• Assign deliverables - Make sure there are individual tasks we are each responsible for. This also ensures both of us are contributing, not just one of us.
• Assign dates - Tasks should be completed at some point. There should be specific dates given to the assigned deliverables that are determined according to a larger time line or set of milestones.
• Validate what you're doing - Make sure what the company is aiming for and doing still makes sense. Perhaps it's time to revise the mission statement and overall direction of the company.