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These links will give you everything you need to know about what to do with the money.
http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-best-inv...
http://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street-ebook/dp/...
What this should read is he awarded huge bloated crazy contracts to the private sector and he now has a job at one of those companies.
Take a look at when Chargify was started and if the market was crowded then
I find it hard to believe that everyone starting a side project is unhappy at work, I don't think the 2 are related. If you are unhappy at work you should leave.
I am all for doing stuff on the side so as not to get bored, to learn and 50 other things but then let's not call it a startup and a business. An entrepreneur takes calibrated risks and makes things happen when others can't or won't.
You are missing the point, I am not saying you should raise money. I bootstrapped my company and am very proud of it.
It is hard to argue that spending 40+ hours in a week on something other than you startup shows you are committed to your startup. You are committed to making money and then working on your startup.
I have personally invested in many employee's startups but that does not change the fact that trying to do both is a distraction that does not serve you or your job.
A very small sample and does not match actual real life experience. I don't think these findings are true or good. #fail
That is not how they were chosen at all
Tumblr is having a problem today, guess we have to move the blog
I don't think there is any brand confusion, it is clear the differences and even this post shows the difference
https://www.popsurvey.com/blog/popsurvey-is-40-faster-than-s...
Sounds like a nice idea but just not impressed with the site. Also there are not examples of work. If I am going to pay someone to make my presentation pretty I want some examples of past work.
I am involved in Deck Foundry (http://deckfoundry.com) and we make amazing investor decks. The site looks nice and we have examples of work.
Really love this concept, not sure it is a business that makes much money but something the market needs for sure and will help app developers. I might even use it myself
Guess Morgan Stanley cannot support the high price past the first day
Love to see lists like this as there is way too much talk about VC backed companies that never have any real success and never even create any value with customers.
Really too bad to see such a large price increase, they have lost money from me.
Love this concept and would like to see more about it
If you want to talk about any of the details I am happy to discuss. I never said that the array went offline because of the failure but the head was under very heavy load trying to recover from it.
The email is a careful balance of information that 90% of people will find useful and not too much information that no one understands it. Never once did we say we are not to blame, actually the opposite, it is our responsibility no matter the vendor or what we replace the hardware with.
You should have an email from me. Happy to chat anytime.
RAID-DP and the array always has a hot spare, and we had one cold spare on-site and another there within hours to replace the 2nd failure.
We have used NetApp for years and decided to move to Pillar Data Systems as they are much more forward thinking, easier to work with and understand storage systems at a very deep level. NetApp wants you to buy new equipment every few years and force this by increasing support costs very quickly.
The 2 disk failure did not cause the outage, but the process the filer head had to go through to get the data back onto new drives and then further actions taken with SnapMirror and other items to try and recover faster.
The drives in this array are mixed and from different production batches and some have been replaced at different times for a number of reasons. Across an array this size 2 disks failing at the exact same time is very rare as verified by the vendor.
We have more redundancy than that with NetApp, there are multiple filer heads and SnapMirror relationships and SnapMirror was part of the problem and the process that it runs to make sure all data is correct at all end points.
I think you are very wrong in this case. The list is not looking for the largest companies in any of those categories. Clearly those that are huge companies took funding along the way to grow, but the list is of young founders and you can easily generate a list of young founders with huge success that did not take funding.
I think the problem with lists like this is it creates a culture of celebrating the funding part only, not the hard work that comes later and the true success that the investor wants.
How sad that they only listed companies that got funding. It is not a good culture to look at funding as success, how about growth, revenue or even profit.
Love the links and too funny there is one in France with a similar name. What is interesting is only focused on women.
Love Jon and Janette and everything they are doing. I remember getting calls from Jon when all of this happened and so happy to see where he is today.
Sorry to hear that, as a founder I would love to learn how we can do better. Feel free to contact me anytime and chat.
The shipping audit industry has been around for years, we have just applied modern day technology and automation to an industry that has been all manual. The shipping industry is measured in billions of $ each year, so if we get that big we will figure something out.
Very interesting idea, we will consider offering this for sure. If anyone wants to test this we will work with them.
Great point, we will add more information and stats about the work. A good number might be the % of packages that are late and then rejected by FedEx for one reason or another and the work that goes into that. Thanks.
Very fair point, we feel like the amount is fair for the work we do and it is free money. What number would make you signup and feel good about it?