jaredstenquist

This is why I built LawyerClock. I got pissed off at the long calls with corporate attorneys for $600+ per hour (per partner!).

http://www.lawyerclock.com

* I coded this during lawyer meetings.

Looks like you could use some VC money to keep your blog online :)

I do the same with Trello. I have a "life" board. Easy to move things around as priorities change.

It sounds like a lot of obvious mistakes were made here. #1 on my list would be to never give direct access to the company's bank account if possible, and definitely not without limits. There should be 1 or 2 names on it max.

What has personally worked for me is providing company credit cards with a max limit of $25k to anyone who actually needs to be actively spending. Right now that's head of tech, head of marketing and CEO. My company is larger and spends quite a bit. If you are bootstrapping or have done an angel round, perhaps this number should be $5k or $10k. Either way, the important part is the limit.

As far as withdrawals go, a 2-signer system on all checks is a no-brainer, though in this case it sounds like an in-person withdrawal from a branch is what got you. I would check with your bank to see if they can setup a similar system for withdrawals over $X. I've worked with Silicon Valley Bank and they are super flexible to any of these custom needs.

Best of luck with getting back up after this. These are the kinds of events that you need to creatively persevere through.

Terrible idea, and based on the title of your blog, it's no surprise to me that you'd like all your equity in year one.

There are reasons for 3,4 or N year vesting - namely keeping employees invested in the business. If employees at a startup turned over every year, it simply wouldn't survive.

Salary is used to keep employees for a year. Salary and/or equity is used to keep employees for a meaningful period of time. There will always be the ones there to simply collect a paycheck, and likewise there will be ones who stick around for their 50,000 shares of equity without doing the math to realize their potential upside near 0.

You probably want to run this on a single static page, not requiring PHP, MySQL or Wordpress. That will help avoid the completely broken state it's in now.

It works for me when I do Shift+CMD+3 (full screen), but Shift+CMD+4 (variable size screenshot) does not work.

OSX 10.8.2 and up to date dropbox.

- Great list. Having gone through all of this I can tell you it's very expensive and time consuming to do all of this, but it is prudent.

- 83B 83B 83B! This one cost me over $100,000 in a deal, and at one point came close to killing a venture financing in the 11th hour - all because an attorney told us we were all set (when we weren't). Make sure your attorney and accountant have startup experience, and don't be afraid to ask the opinion of others. It's incredible how one sheet of paper can totally kill your business.

- I disagree with the PayPal suggestion. A check is more valuable to me as a vendor since i don't have PayPal taking out their fees. This is substantial money if you are talking about thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.

Article could be made useful by showing a benchmark of indexes vs no-indexes, and showing the readers how the indexes were created. At least then we can say it's educational and has substance. Otherwise I agree this is substance-less. It's common sense that any database is slow if used incorrectly.

I hope you are right. If so my domains will become more valuable...

- pizzacopter.com - burgercopter.com - foodcopter.com

After hacking together these desks in the past I bought a Geekdesk (http://www.geekdesk.com).

You quickly realize the value of the $1,200 pricetag is that the desk adjusts in seconds to the exact sit or stand height you want. I would spend the same money on anything that keeps me healthier and decreases my back issues.

Evernote already is for my life. This is going nowhere.

I feel much more productive knowing I have no idea what a "battle.net" account is.

I can account for atleast 100 of those. Any company who relies heavily on Facebook for registration and auth likely creates many on a regular basis for testing.

I also wish they announced when RDS might start running off of these. In order to achieve higher IOPS i've provisioned 350GB of disk for my ~50GB database. I came across a rumor that after 300GB of space, AWS enables striping and figured it was worth the marginal extra cost.

Since I'm spending more than $1,000/month for an RDS master, which is backed by EBS, i'm intrigued at the idea of running our database off of these. Of course I'd lose all the awesome automated features of RDS, but worth considering.

Maybe AWS will release a High Performance RDS option that runs off of them. Wishful thinking.

I was born in 84 and have a lot of fond memories with Windows 3.1, solitaire and the progression of computer games as I grew up.

I sincerely hope this father kids his kids out of the house and into the backyard to make friends, built forts, break things, and all the other awesomeness I experienced as a kid growing up. If my dad started putting me in front of a terminal when I was 2 or 3, I'm nervous how I would have ended up.

Because I received my first programming book (HTML in 24 hours) when I was 13, I had plenty of years to learn to code, but didn't sit inside while all the other kids were playing for 13 years. Now I'm coding everyday, having a blast at my startup, and my best friends today are the kids from my neighborhood that I was building forts and setting off fireworks with 20 years ago.

It seems that the important part is that you're moving throughout the day. Personally, when I'm switching between standing and sitting throughout the day I have more energy and tend to move around a lot more. If I didn't do this, I'd end up sitting for periods of 4+ hours at a time.

As a CTO I manage development and technology for the company, which means I'm up and around the office (and out) for meetings and touching base with other departments. If I were an engineer I'd likely utilize a standing desk less. I personally don't enjoy coding standing up.

I spent $1,100 on a GeekDesk max (including shipping). An investment in my health was long overdue, especially since I've spent $4-5,000 on my computer setup.

The huge benefit is not having to move all your stuff whenever you're done sitting or standing. I press a button and in 10 seconds it's changed height. MAGIC!

I highly suggest them to anyone, just watch out for the long backorder. Mine took 3 months to get here.

1) What is "Daddy"?

2) You definitely need some screenshots or a video. After browsing the entire site for a few minutes I only have a vague guess of what this application might do.

This is a great update. You certainly don't want to put anything production on here, but small applications would be great with this. Even a properly cached WP blog (low traffic) would do just fine on here.

The automatic backups and rollback in RDS is worth way more than $19 alone.

Great work Wells. I wish you the best of luck with the great team @ Kicksend.

502 bad gateway. On the bright side, if you're overloading nginx with your weekend project it's going pretty well :)

The new design idea is great. The lower hanging fruit for conversion is addressing the ~5s pageload time. I was left without graphics for nearly 4 seconds (10mbit duplex connection)

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/EJEPcYv2P/iamexec.com

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=i...

Also, what do we need SSL for on a landing page?

I know the guys over at Boundless but haven't had a change to ask them if the litigation was known in advance of closing the Series A. It appears the complaint came out a few weeks before the announcement (3/16).

Fighting this to the end could eat up a substantial amount of Venrock's $8M.

I can imagine Apple would commit some legal resources to research the validity of a complaint, though it seems like a reasonable feature to me.

Nginx 502 Bad Gateway. Upgrade that Rackspace VM!

I built a site like this a year ago for Lawyers.

http://www.lawyerclock.com

Slightly more entertaining.

Since my $1,000 worth of bitcoins dropped in value to $150 over a period of weeks, I've become significantly less interested in using it as a currency.

Yes RDS, is great for the money considering the ease of backups and replicas, which normally are a pain in the ass for any sysadmin.

Overall this article has little to do with scaling on AWS. Running any sort of production website on a micro instance is pretty foolish, besides a blog or static website perhaps.