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Love me some organized files. We use Google Docs when we need to collaboratively edit a document, but the finalized versions are all stored in Dropbox. Start
by dmarble 16y ago
Love me some organized files. We use Google Docs when we need to collaboratively edit a document, but the finalized versions are all stored in Dropbox.
Startup\ (Shared with all employees)
Competitors\
Contacts\ (folders for people/companies, better in a CRM at some point)
Customers\
Dev\
Concepts\ (mockups)
Web\
iPhone\
Android\
Specs\
Graphics\ (logo, frequently used images)
Marketing\
Presentations\
Press\
Reference\
Research\
Unfiled\
Whiteboards_and_Ideas\ (photos of whiteboarding/brainstorming)
Startup-Confidential\ (Shared with those who need to know)
Legal\
Agreements-Executed\
(Folders by name of person/organization)\
(Agreements signed by this person/organization and us)
Corporate_Records\
Master_Record_Book\
(Sequentially labeled, signed finalized documents
from the corporate record book)
YYYY-MM-DD_<Company-Event-Description>\
(Draft documents/revisions for each major legal event like
formation, board actions, hiring)
Employee_Records\
(Folders by name of employee)\
Important employee files, agreements
Forms
Template legal documents
Finances\
Startup\Interns\ (Shared with interns)
Startup-Working\ (for me)
- rlucas 16y agoNice, bonus points for using the YYYYMMDD date form in your folder names -- free lexical sort!! (We do likewise with suffix notation, mainly because the more common use case for us is to to first sort by "event description" then by date.)