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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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