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by plehoux 12y ago
I'm running ConferenceBadge.com and LeanTicket.com and Eventbrite is a really good partner of ours. I can attest by my own experience at their commitment to being efficient. Negotiating our partnership was fast and easy, never did we f
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by plehoux 12y ago
Gates described three personas : 1. One guy is putting his capital into building his business 2. A woman who’s giving most of her wealth to charity 3. A third person is mostly consuming, spending a lot of money on things like a yacht and pl
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by plehoux 12y ago
Taxes! It is never too early to setup something like xero.com and bring outside expertise. Knowing how much money you really have is the most important thing to know when you run a business. At ConferenceBadge.com I spent a few days automat
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Show HN: Medalist, an elegant website builder for athletes(medali.st)
10 points by plehoux 12y ago|1 comments
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by plehoux 12y ago
We launched ConferenceBadge.com January 2013 (team of 4). We are now profitable and fully pay ourselves with it. We have no outside funding (we were invited to the YC interview, but weren't selected). We now invest our time between th
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by plehoux 13y ago
Quebec (~7 millions people) is at more than 90% green electricity, just saying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HQ_supplies_2007.svg
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by plehoux 13y ago
Thanks Adam for your advices on ConferenceBadge.com, we already implemented one of your suggestions!
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by plehoux 13y ago
I'm not sure if what we are looking for is creative enough to get art students interested. It's boring printing, cutting, stuffing and shipping stuff.
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by plehoux 13y ago
The PDF product margin is 100%. For the print product, it really depends on the order size and destination... but around 30% to 70%. Minus fixed cost and labour(our time is seen as an investment).
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by plehoux 13y ago
We were also surprised...
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by plehoux 13y ago
Right now our clients range from small church meetup to big tech conferences and they are spread all across the US. My first instinct would be to find a partner near a FedEx airport hub.
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by plehoux 13y ago
We did try to contact them with no success.
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by plehoux 13y ago
OP here. Shameless use of the exposure... we are looking for a printing partner in the US. If you are in the US and know a high-quality and trustworthy print shop let us know!
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12 Months to 7k Monthly Revenue(blog.conferencebadge.com)
37 points by plehoux 13y ago|18 comments
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by plehoux 13y ago
This will be crush by regulations. The future of delivery is in Google hands right now. They got two amazing technologies,Bufferbox and the Google driverless car, and a big enough lobby power to change the laws. Things will be delivered by
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Heybill: Huge Tax Season Time Saver - Automatically fetch your invoices(github.com)
1 points by plehoux 13y ago|0 comments
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by plehoux 13y ago
Thanks! I'm totally open to pull requests!
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by plehoux 13y ago
OP here, I was fed up wasting my time fetching hundreds of invoices during tax season. Collectively we could create a pretty powerful scraping application that lets us download all of our invoices in minutes. I plan on adding many more prov
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Show HN: Heybill - Automatically Fetch Your Invoices From The Command Line(github.com)
17 points by plehoux 13y ago|7 comments
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A Simple Trick To Manage Your Customer Support Chat (HipChat API)(blog.conferencebadge.com)
1 points by plehoux 13y ago|0 comments
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by plehoux 13y ago
Don’t blindly follow the MVP gospel, adapt it to your personality and projects. People won’t take your half finished app seriously if you are outside of the early adopters market… which happens most of the time.
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The reason we failed our interview(blog.conferencebadge.com)
2 points by plehoux 13y ago|0 comments
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by plehoux 13y ago
We had 0 connection with past alumni and we got an interview.
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Why We Think We Failed Our YC Interview(blog.conferencebadge.com)
3 points by plehoux 13y ago|0 comments
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by plehoux 13y ago
Totally agree with this. And it is where we probably dropped the ball.
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by plehoux 13y ago
Exactly, we launched three months ago, have revenues(4 digits monthly), a healthy 100% monthly growth rate. We just left the interview really confused about the reasons why they wanted to interview us in the first place. Since all they rea
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The best way to print name badges from an Excel spreadsheet(blog.conferencebadge.com)
3 points by plehoux 14y ago|1 comments
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by plehoux 14y ago
A startup, from Quebec, is working on this: http://gofellow.com/
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by plehoux 14y ago
We personally have a closed garden (Canada), so we don't have to worry about this. In Europe, most people have closed garden.
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by plehoux 14y ago
Funny to read this since me and my girlfriend do the same with our baby in Quebec city, Canada. Its all about good cloths and making sure the hands, feet and head stay warm. You would be amaze by the quality of cloths and stroller our baby

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