Author: Shawn Jackson
I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.
Before starting Resgrid I started collecting a number of tools and services that would help launch a company. Everything from DNS providers to legal documents. Most of these services are free or very low cost, as I like to bootstrap my businesses to keep the costs down and keep flexibility up. I’ve previously written about
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One of the first things you should do for your startup, besides coming up with an idea, coming up with a sweet name, trying to drag your friends and family on board, begging for money from everyone, developing a awesome logo, wait what was I talking about again?. Somewhere in between all the fun and
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For my cloud service that I founded I decided to use Windows Azure as my cloud platform of choice. The service I created with my partner staxmanade is called Resgrid, and it’s a cloud based service for first responder organizations to manage personnel, units, departments and logistics. My primary reason for choosing Azure was the
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