So an idea came up relatively quick - I would have my own business and I would help people by consulting them on business and company management topics. But I would only be able to serve a very limited number of customers at a time. So I needed something to have a better reach. And the puzzle started to assemble - now I knew the coding part and was able to put the methods that I have worked on for all theses years into an app.

When you build this New Thing, tracking your progress is perhaps the last thing you are considering. The rationale is, you should be building product and pushing it out in a matter of weeks. So everything not vital for the MVP is cut and pushed back. That sadly may - and often does - include such silly things as bills, bank account statements and other boring stuff that the business people call KPI’s (or key performance indicators).