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This article had a ton of great minutia in it so thanks for that! Many times people gloss over the fine detail which is really the important stuff.

Question: Bringing in $3600 and only profiting $400; was the whole thing worth it in the end?

Probably not the best title but I enjoyed the article. I always like hearing what tools other founders use.

ps. all you project manager makers TODO list startups, listen up. Your app is not a project management app until it has dependencies. If you don't have dependenies you are just a TODO list; Basecamp, I'm looking at you ;)

I'm sorry, but this is terrible advice. Unless you have considerable savings you should always take a salary.

When I was 27 I raised 1mil in an angel round. I was just out of college (I'm a vet so my college was delayed while I served) and was flat broke. I was 'advised' to take a minimal salary and proceeded to bring on 12 employees all who made most money that I.

2 years later when we ran out of money I had zero dollars in the bank (zero). I had no savings, I had no safety net. I was F'd. I spent 6 months homeless traveling with a circus to save enough money to move back to Chicago.

It is my personal advice that you take a minimum salary, rent, food, bills, and have the company pay you $500/month into a savings account that vests when you leave the company. Doing this one thing will give you some peace of mind that when this wonderful ride comes to an end that you will at least have some money in the bank to make your way again.

I am all for ramen-rich I think it is actually a good thing but I am here to tell you that if you don't take care of yourself financially you are setting yourself up for huge failure if/when the money goes away.

Personally, I would like ALL angels, VC's and incubators offer young entrepreneurs these 'bronze parachutes'. You don't have to pay them much right now but I do feel you need to make sure they, at the very least, don't crash and burn if the second round of funding doesn't come through.

Sweet, hope the demo goes well!

awesome! I don't arrive until tomorrow but hope you all have a great time tonight.

really interesting. One comment on the UX. Since there are no clickable buttons/links I thought this was just a coming soon page.

Create a button that says 'track now' or some other call to action.

Once I read the middle paragraph I understood how it works but I bet most people will never piece that together.

and yes, package tracking would also be good. Have a look at Dominos pizza order tracker. Something as easy as that would be fun and engaging.

Yes: but only when the person getting the karma is not the OP ;)

I would agree with this. Leaving town is a big part of the college experience. I moved to Chicago (from Kansas) to go to school and when I finished a lot of my friends where, yep, still in Kansas.

agree with the above. I work at a federally funded research center and where you went is pretty important Carnegie-melon, MIT, etc.

However, if I was going to just get a degree then work at a startup just go somewhere with a good program and then let your git repo be your resume.