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This talk was given at the Communitech Mobile P2P meeting in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on Wednesday, November 14th, 2012.

I've worked at Google and they take search quality very seriously. In fact, the search quality guys are not allowed to talk to the ads guys to avoid exactly this type of influence.…

A very interesting article indeed. Not much new, though. I am curious, though .. many co-founders with very successful exits make the top 0.05% or 0.01% in terms of networth, but t…

Our approach was: 1. Sketch mockups on paper, iterate until happy. 2. Sketch mockups in Photoshop, iterate until happy with every little detail. 3. Send photoshop mockups for slici…

When we raised our seed funding, I used several cap tables - none of which worked for me because they all made certain assumptions and didn't allow for reverse-calculations, which …

We host our servers with IAI ( http://www.internetworking-atlantic.com/ ) and run our own private cloud using proxmox and OpenVZ. The VMs are CentOS 6 and the host drives are all e…

Thanks for the links Daniel. Very helpful! BTW, we're in headquartered in Nova Scotia, and as per your link, we have stricter privacy laws than the rest of Canada. It even goes as …

Brilliant! It'd be nice to provide an index of all companies profiled.

We tried them but had to change to a different vendor because the Blackberries didn't recognize their certificates and they had no plans to rectify that. We don't have much BB traf…

I actually found the comments informative to gain better insight as to why people use different setups. I had assumed that same as what you said, which turned out to be less often …

There is an option for SLA with a paid Google Apps account. Last I checked it was $50/year, but comes with much larger inbox (25G at Google vs. 10G max at Rackspace). Also better i…

I've used rackspace hosted email before, both the regular and the exchange versions. It works nicely and the users were very happy. It gets expensive though if you want push notifi…

At TitanFile we run our own server for all application-related stuff, and use a third party for email hosting. Reasons: 1) We need to comply with Canadian privacy laws, so need Can…

The overall market is estimated to be at 10's of billions of dollars in size. No one is even close to being a market leader, although companies like box.net, dropbox, and sharefile…

Stay away from .co at all cost. We tried registered irealty.co when it came out since .com and many others TLDs didn't have irealty, and we really wanted that name. We've put the .…

As a general rule, shorter URLs are more memorable, better for SEO, and better for social sharing. Memorable: 7 letters or less is best, 9 is still manageable, and anything more th…

I use pingdom.com for external monitoring, especially for response time reports.

Can you share the relevant snippets from your puppet setup? I'm currently looking at using puppet with nagios/monit to manage the 50+ servers that recently became my responsibility…

I'm most productive 10pm to 1am. So many people suggest working early, but not everyone can be productive in the early morning. And when you have kids who wake up at 6 or 7am, doin…

I'm in the same boat as you and totally agree with you that it is necessary to separate design from implementation and assign these tasks to different people in order to maintain o…

Well that's what made it a "hard decision." But so far so good. It's been a few month and we've become good friends since then, doing social stuff together not only startup work.