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francoismathieu··on Notes on This Week in Startups Episode 567: Maren Kate Donovan’s Zirtual
"Switching from contractors to employees was costly, and 5-10% quit as they prefered to remain contractors."
francoismathieu··on Pan Am Games: Link to our website without permission and we'll sue
I highly doubt it, unless they've recently hired a genius. They've been struggling to explain what the Pan Am Games are to the Toronto residents over 18 months. Not a PR hit so far.
francoismathieu··on Startup Marketing Plan Template
I don't see what's traditional in this plan. It takes an hour to fill, 10 minutes to update. It's not a huge commitment, and you can always change direction, but in the meantime everyone on the team is on the same page.

A lot of founders just don't know how to get started with marketing. Now I can link to this. This a better time investment to fill this out than to read half of the so called marketing advice you can find online.

francoismathieu··on How we’re trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup
I don't think it has anything to do with time, but with this definition: An organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Or Paul G.'s: startup = growth.

francoismathieu··on Show HN: Volley
Great work guys, onboarding is well done, I started using the product only 5 minutes in.
francoismathieu··on Y Combinator Winter 2014 Batch Rankings and Quick Reference
Mattermark score https://mattermark.com/mattermark-score/
francoismathieu··on Y Combinator Winter 2014 Batch Rankings and Quick Reference
With Kimono #1, scraping websites is alive and well! I wish Pushbullet had a score, very useful tool.
francoismathieu··on I was a $200K VC, now I’m a $0 entrepreneur – first thoughts
Why no name?
francoismathieu··on 7 Things Marketers Can Learn From 2,616 Viral Headlines.
Cool spreadsheet, will compare with my own data.
francoismathieu··on Everything I Know About Startup Marketing I Learned From Punk Rock
Thanks for sharing!
francoismathieu··on SEO spam on Medium
I curate a collection called "About Data". You have no idea what kind of submissions I get. They need to clean up the site already, too easy to start spamming collections and post links out there.
francoismathieu··on How Reorganizing Our Content Increased Leads By 800%
Great long and transparent post by Hana.
francoismathieu··on If Satoshi Nakamoto has over 1,000,000 BTC, why doesn't he just sell it now?
It would be easy to sell 1,000,000 BTC without anyone noticing. It's only 100 BTC per minute for a week.
francoismathieu··on The Minimum Viable Analysis
Thanks for sharing, added to my queue.
francoismathieu··on The Minimum Viable Analysis
A framework for effecient data analysis.
francoismathieu··on Ask HN: Working in Canada?
There you go: Start-up visa

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/start-up/ind...

francoismathieu··on Quora’s Horrible Mobile Experience (In the name of "growth")
That was another issue that they corrected a while ago. I hope they also correct this one.
francoismathieu··on Quora’s Horrible Mobile Experience (In the name of "growth")
Me and my wife are really pissed when it happens. Decided to post this to let them know how it sucks.
francoismathieu··on Collective Intelligence Enabled By The Internet
Thanks for the tip!
francoismathieu··on Collective Intelligence Enabled By The Internet
It goes beyond those who read the post. Some people asked their friends on Twitter and came back with an answer. Others found the information on crowd sourced websites.
francoismathieu··on Case of Business of putting customer first
Putting customers first is closer to the Stakeholder capitalism model, in which you take into account all parties involved in the long term success of a company.