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A New Chargeback Fraud Scheme 13 Aug 2013 | 04:07 am
Scammers are creative, you have to give them that I suppose. Recently we’ve started seeing a new chargeback fraud technique. Here’s how it works: A thief possesses a stolen credit card and also knows...
Tutorial: Using Google Spreadsheets to Update a Google Calendar – Our New Vacation Management System 10 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
As promised in my last post about our vacation policies, here’s a step-by-step tutorial of how we now manage our vacation policies with a Google Calendar and a Google Spreadsheet. By the end of this ...
How And Why We Adjusted Our Vacation Policies 30 Jul 2013 | 04:14 am
It feels like we’ve had our core team in place forever. The six of us – myself, my two partners, and our three full-time employees – naturally form such a good team that sometimes we forget that we’ve...
Pure Adapt Night At The Tri-City ValleyCats 19 Jul 2013 | 12:32 am
Over July 4th weekend we rented a box at a Tri-City ValleyCats baseball game, our local minor league baseball team (the Class A affiliate of the Houston Astros). We had been planning this for a while ...
The Best Read On The Web Right Now 12 Jul 2013 | 11:33 pm
I am completely sucked in to the tumblr blog My Startup has 30 Days to Live. It’s written anonymously by an entrepreneur who ran a successful business, took VC money, and now the business is on the br...
Another 3 Years 9 Jul 2013 | 11:49 pm
We recently renewed our lease to stay in our warehouse for another three years. Over the past six months we seriously considered upgrading to a new facility. We could use more office space. We could u...
The Magical Coffee Machine 6 Jul 2013 | 12:38 am
The other day I was reading The Way I Work: Zulily’s Darrell Cavens in Inc Magazine and I smiled when I read this: Six months into the business, we got one of those Starbucks coffee machines here in ...
The Email Wasteland Of Former Employees 3 Jul 2013 | 01:52 am
Picture this: you shoot an email over to a contact at a company you work closely with. Maybe it’s a vendor or a benefits provider or your landlord. Point is, it’s someone that you have done regular bu...
LockerPulse as a Google Reader Replacement For Sports Fans? 12 Jun 2013 | 06:36 pm
We’ve been so busy lately with Detailed Image that some of our plans for LockerPulse have taken a backseat. With Google Reader shutting down on July 1, I thought it might be a good idea to do a small ...
Supporting Google Chrome’s Autocomplete/Autofill For Registration & Checkout 29 May 2013 | 11:55 pm
A few weeks ago at Google I/O Google announced that Chrome is now supporting the HTML5 autocomplete functionality, and that your saved autocomplete information (called autofill in Chrome) will be sync...
