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You don't need a co-founder, but you shouldn't do it alone.

Every founder will have days where an investor or employee is driving you nuts, or worse - you're struggling to keep the business afloat. At these junctures, an outside coach (not linked to your funding so you're truly open and honest) can be a lifesaver, helping you work through the complex journey of growing a business.

-Single founder, 6 years 20+ employees

We've been interviewing external "AWS specialist" firms to help with the complexity, review our architecture, leverage new AWS services, etc.

Any recommendations? Have spoken with LogicWorks, 2ndWatch and RackSpace so far.

Can you explain? Sure, they're marketed to consumers because their audience is largely there, but if configured securely (to only talk to your infrastructure etc) offer a very affordable option to store data behind a customer's walls.

"In their data center" implies you're thinking large enterprises. Small businesses/industries may have requirements to keep data on-prem but without enterprise budgets.

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Synology DiskStations are an affordable option (<$1000) for on-prem data storage accessible to your web application. They run a standard LAMP stack out of the box (basic database and file storage) and have redundant/RAID storage.

A few tips from experience: if you can get them to put it on a dedicated IP, even better; use Synology firewall to limit access to your servers IPs, or VPN (do not leave on public net, because ransomware); set to auto-update the OS (because the customer never will!); still have another backup (even a USB-attached 1TB solid state drive, but ideally another physical location); disable all unused services (to limit potential exploits); if customer allows, give them a user and you a user - enable logging and now you can demonstrate if/when you had to access their box for maintenance (feel good factor)

Would this work over a compressed (such as VoIP) connection, or even RF radio? Imagine sending a picture over an existing public safety radio network if Internet is disrupted.

Looking forward to when the posters are available for purchase. I'm not seeing any in http://thejplstore.com/index.php?route=product/category&path...

Even better

Idea: Put free WiFi hotspots in homeless areas (SSID: AskIzzy) that go directly to (and are limited to) your site when the browser launches.

Remember that people often have phones but are out of data/minutes when they need help the most.

Tip: Have an Indeed.com resume verbose with your areas of expertise. Build a project using Parse.com or the Twitter API? Put that in there. As an employer, one of my more successful methods is to search for specific skill sets that a project may require, then reach out to a small handful of developers who hit on those searches with a pitch to why -new project- is exciting.

Former National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield and I used to sneak up to the rooftop looking for the Green Flash while building our new business. It was his dream to see it in his lifetime. We never did see the flash, but the peaceful anticipation of going up there each day is perhaps my favorite memory from that startup experience.

Is human trafficking being facilitated over your app? Recommended reading by (Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore's) non-profit Thorn: https://www.wearethorn.org/sound-practices-guide-stopping-ch...

Want to contribute your time/talent to addressing the problem? https://www.wearethorn.org/survey/

Great feedback, thank you!

We use 15Five (employees spend 15mins/wk answering questions, managers spend 5mins reviewing). It's extremely valuable for measuring happiness and weekly goal attainment while soliciting ongoing feedback. What I like most is that it draws information out of those employees who prefer written over face-to-face interactions, and enables me to address 'concerns' before they become 'issues.'

15Five trial referral link: http://ssqt.co/tkdC

Edit: How does 15Five compare to Retroospect, now that I see someone from the team is on here?

If Whois returns a private registration and the site doesn't provide contact information, try the Wayback Machine http://archive.org/web/

Easy (Homejoy customer here). They show up at the scheduled time, say hello, clean, leave. I'm sure it's a personal relationship for some customers but wasn't for me.

Homejoy customer here. For me, they succeeded in making home cleaning accessible to a guy in his early 30s who clicked a few buttons past a Facebook ad to schedule 2x/mo cleaning - a big stress reliever and quality of life improver. I never used a cleaning service prior to Homejoy.

Where they failed was in providing an adequate supply of cleaners (no one available for weeks on occasion) and last-minute cancellations without substitutes.

Never did a cleaner solicit me to hire direct, but I DO think Homejoy should leave their customers with a way to reach the cleaners I did like for rehiring. Why not, after all?

On this topic, can someone recommend a simple feature voting tool with SSO? Something similar to this but not tied to GitHub?

When I looked again at Get Satisfaction, User Voice, etc they're all so bloated with features and complication.

Looking for a way to direct my signed in users to a simple page to vote up a list of features we're considering.

Reading this just moments after shredding a prison map, putting a failed product attempt of mine on the shelf.

The idea was to provide a texting kiosk for prisoners to SMS friends and family.

Building the technology MVP to run an iMessage-like application on a tablet was the easy part. Getting prisons interested in making a few pennies per SMS - also easy.

Why did it fail? (why did we stop short?)

- The jails required hardware that, "cannot be turned into a weapon." Phone handsets are used as hammers and ripped from walls, so much that these came about http://media.columbian.com/img/photos/2014/08/25/257871_A_Po...

- Manufacturing and installing "safe" kiosks required for our app, like http://www.talton.com/images/kiosk_phone.jpg was a costly proposition.

- Internet access and power. Consider weak-or-no data signal, and ethernet & power that must be drilled through thick concrete walls.

- Existing jail phone systems with the hardware already installed are protective of their business and were not willing to put our software on their devices.

- Integrating with existing canteen systems (a prisoner's bank account) was also complicated. There aren't exactly APIs for that.

- Lastly, and I found this to be most interesting, in our discussion of beta testing with certain prisoners was deemed a bad idea, citing that those who have special access become targets for other inmates.

I loved Hutson's Shutterfly-like photo service when I first read about it, since it improved a prisoner's quality of life without introducing the technology hurdles above. Amazing founder story and product.

After my own experience, I'm even more impressed reading that Pigeon.ly is handling over 2 million minutes per month and would be interested to hear the "how we did it" story on that one some day.

Thanks. Not questioning the cost of your service - that's for you and the market to decide! Just trying to get a better understanding of how the bitcoin transaction works.

Just paid to stamp a document and thought the process was very easy - nice job!

Question: Help me understand the bitcoin financial transaction - I'm not well-versed in bitcoin. In blockchain.info I see "Total Input: 0.0002 BTC" and "Fees: 0.0002 BTC". Is my assumption correct that you had to make a minimal legitimate bitcoin transaction to appear in the ledger (.0002BTC / $0.05), then pay that same amount again as a fee, costing you roughly $0.10USD?

More simply, how much bitcoin is being transacted and who is it going to/from in order for you to create the stamp?

Fast-forward 8 or so years to today, where crimes involving mobile devices or computers are the norm. Police departments are recruiting tech-savvy young adults out of high school, then sending them to training on digital forensics and the like. Everything goes well for a couple years until they hit the agency's pay ceiling and move to the private sector. There are plenty of opportunities for smart people in law enforcement today that don't equate to boredom - compensation has more to do with it IMO.

Hoops are good, yes, and I don't disagree with the decision to reclassify it. The extra time and expense of new doctor appointments, urine tests, pill counting, questioning, etc. for someone who has been on the drug responsibly for a long time can just be aggravating.

Tramadol recently became more regulated as a controlled substance and now requires patients to jump through more hoops (pain management visits, drug tests, etc.) to obtain. Source: Family member on Tramadol and http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20140818/NEWS08/140...

I could be wrong, but Coolpad looks large (like a Note) whereas Moto G is small and easy to operate with one hand - which I prefer. Also, when I Google Coolpad 7320 my purchase options are eBay or AliExpress - and that's fine for many people, but I like to recommend a phone to a customer that they can walk into a retail store or Amazon and get easily. There's something to be said for that.

I've been using the Moto G on T-Mobile for roughly 1 month and have nothing but great things to say about it. Fast, no bloatware, screen is brilliant, right size, available on all carriers (I believe). Best sub-$200 phone I've come across that feels state of the art.

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Thanks for working on this important project! Maybe I missed this in reading your site, but how do you know it detects fake base stations? Have you been able to test it against a Stingray, or are you basing the app on a set of assumptions derived from recently leaked product specs?

I got the same thing for reference.

Nice response, thank you.

As I understand it, the business tax structure in Brazil is one of the most complex in the world [1], resulting in iPhones for example costing as much as $1,200 [2]. A good friend in Rio is working on a solar startup and said on some products they face 88% tax on revenue. Correct me if I'm off-base, but what impact is that having on attracting and fostering startups?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joeharpaz/2013/12/17/brazil-rank...

http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-exp...