We have similar problems at Designed.org with spikes, luckily we've moved to React and distributed some things on AWS and we've been much better off. Keep up the good work, we need more design education resources out there.
I'll be honest, I was really hoping in the middle of looking through this that it was going to burst into a game of Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiego.....
"Startup entrepreneurs themselves are feeling good about 2013. In the Kauffman/LegalZoom Startup Confidence Index survey, a whopping 83 percent of startup business owners are confident about their potential profits next year. Young entrepreneurs, ages 18 to 30, are even surer of themselves: 93 percent say they’re “confident” or “very confident” about 2013 sales projections."
Working for a startup myself, and keeping pretty close tabs on what it going on out there in the community, and it seems to me that there is a lot of optimism going into '13. VC money and wages are still going to be tough but not impossible, but that is part of the startup game.