I think this thread will have tons of views from people in the startup world that are likely to be SVB customers. If we all agree to not do run in the bank, it will improve chances for SVB to make it through the next few days.
I'll start with committing not to withdraw money my company [redacted] holds in the bank.
We know when Heroku is down cause our emails from client's app drown our inboxes, and our clients get pounded by their clients.
I think it would be ideal to allow you to customize these messages to make things easier, but I can't imagine the infrastructure they would need to have in place to support this.
The option presented by the article is lot simpler.
The big difference with your Amazon account is that it's password protected. All purchases made in the App Store are easily accesible via the updates tab. No password there. Apple needs to either password protect that, or allow you to delete those(imo).
I agree here, Posterous is free and a dam great service. If you want full control code your own blog or go the wordpress custom install way. They need to monetize somehow.
I'll start with committing not to withdraw money my company [redacted] holds in the bank.
We stand by SVB.
I invite others to do the same.