Bootstrap’d The Misadventures of Starting a Company

ToDo: June 10, 200912:28:26

Carry Over:

• Work on setting up Mosso The Rackspace Cloud instance
• Design business card graphic

Added Today:

• Look for a UPS
• Buy UPS
• Client project scoping
• Decide on the bootstrap
• Coding
• Call car dealership – call back Friday
• Call bowling instructor – around 4:30
• Research The Rackspace Cloud DNS settings
• Research some web server technologies
• Buy ticket for WordCamp
• Spin up new VM image

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ToDo: June 9, 200911:43:45

Carry Over:

• Work on setting up Mosso instance
• Work on a different part of the code

Added Today:

• Client call
• Project Scoping
• Email client
• Change over service charges
• Check on credit card app
• Work on client project – time permitting
• Research business cards
• Write short demo of new code
• Update Mosso links
• Design business card graphic

Popularity: 47% [?]

ToDo: June 8, 200911:57:11

Carry Over:

• Work on setting up Mosso instance
• Call Merchant company to activate account – FINALLY!

Added Today:

• Call at noon
• Email dev list
• Check mail
• Test Discover Card transaction
• Respond to some comments
• Set a meeting with my designer
• Debug the problem in the code
• Work on a different part of the code

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ToDo: June 5, 200914:14:15

Carry Over:

• Call Merchant company to activate account
• Write Achievements page

Added Today:

• Email CES
• Ask Twitter about funny API behavior
• Work on setting up Mosso instance
• Do more coding
• Go to the bank
• Mail out T-Shirts
• Check the mail
• Tangle with GoGrid

Popularity: 41% [?]

ToDo: June 412:02:26

Carry Over

• Call Merchant company to activate account – still no answer

Added Today

• Install VM
• Research competition
• Check-in with my designer
• June 4 post(s)
• Scope out freelancing job
• Work on product
• Write Achievements page

Popularity: 37% [?]

ToDo: June 3, 200914:01:27

Carry Over:

• Actually write some code

Added Today:

• Call Merchant company to activate account – playing phone tag
• Research PCI compliance
• Call GoDaddy about TweetGrid
• Customer Call 1
• Check on credit card application status
• Research PayPal merchant services
• June 3 post(s)
• Meeting at 10pm downtown
• Activate payment gateway

Popularity: 52% [?]

ToDo: June 2, 200911:30:51

Carry Over:

• Write June 1 post(s)

Added Today:

• Customer call 1
• Customer call 2
• Apply for business credit card(s)
• Launch blog
• Create business related twitter account(s)
• Actually write some code
• Write June 2 post(s)
• Create cloud account
• Setup jazzychad.net account stuff
• Setup feedburner plugin
• Setup Freckle Account
  

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ToDo: June 1, 200910:00:15

• Apply for Tax ID (EIN)
• Open commercial bank account
• Customer Call 1
• Customer Call 2
• Apply for credit card merchant account
• Fax merchant account contract
• Code up quick customer demo
• Get blog domain
• Blog startup stuff: install, theme, initial plugins, Skribit widget, etc…
• Write June 1 post(s)

Popularity: 38% [?]