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A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale
- aioprisan 12y agoDid you try to sign up with Stripe instead? You could get instantly approved and start processing that level of volume without any blockers from them.
- aioprisan 12y agoI just realized that this was posted in 2007, so Stripe wasn't an option back then. This just goes to show how much easier payment processing services like can help the economy grow and business flourish.
- joedavison 12y agoThis story actually happened years ago; it was pre-Stripe. The merchant account company simply had no clue about online businesses. Today there are a lot more options. I actually wonder how Stripe does what they do -- I've heard nothing but great things about them. They must have some great banking connections behind the scenes.
- segmondy 12y agowhat's the name of the Merchant company?
- joedavison 12y agoInnovative Merchant Solutions, a division of Intuit http://www.innovativemerchant.com/ http://www.innovativemerchant.com/
- thegreattd 12y agoWhat was your company, may i get url?
- cbsmith 12y agoI'm getting a 404, and I can't decide if that's actually the lesson.
- theptip 12y agoOh the irony...
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- JamesSwift 12y agoCached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oTcbfZRq72gJ:reprogramming.com/planning-for-scale/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oTcbfZR...
- club7g1 12y agoWhy didn't you hop on a plane to the US early?