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by rwhitman 6y ago
My company has a partner relationship with Shopify so I can't go into too much detail but. My rules of thumb: 1) The value of the app to merchants in the app store is taken into account. They look at whether the app fits into the ecosy
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by rwhitman 6y ago
Hmm... my company builds Shopify apps for large companies. We have had several in the app store that we maintain, that we're either moving to end-of-life or planning to. Personally I believe the days of a solo engineer being able to bu
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by rwhitman 6y ago
Of course the daunting obstacle is changing the mindset of suburban planners and nimbys. The zoning ordinances that have dominated planning in the USA since the 50's ban this in large swaths of America.. New Urbanism made progress crea
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by rwhitman 6y ago
Met Brent at the BigCommerce partner summit a year or so ago. I can't think of a CEO I've met who is more open and accessible. He sat down at my table during the keynotes and asked for feedback during the breaks, went around the r
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by rwhitman 6y ago
My team has worked with their API and had a lot of grievances with it. Regarding API openness vs flat file.. we in the OMS space have our hands tied by the WMS, ERP and EDI world. Investment in an open API doesn't really have any ROI i
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by rwhitman 6y ago
Overall pretty shocking as they were pitching to be an ERP replacement for e-commerce. Anyone who was using Stitch Labs as an ERP-light is going to have a substantial amount of pain migrating in a hurry. I've referred some of Stitch La
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by rwhitman 6y ago
Fundamentally I see the web business from the lens of "data is the new oil". The internet industry is a utility and infrastructure business, period. Content is just one of many things that can be monetized through commodity web te
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by rwhitman 6y ago
I used to agree with the idea that entertainment and tech are similar, but I've had a paradigm shift in my perspective over the last 2 years and it's helped quite a bit.. easy to forget that the internet business is in its infancy
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by rwhitman 6y ago
I'd imagine the inception of Quibi in the first place probably was a conversation like that? This situation is emblematic of the fundamental conflict it would face. On the one side the desire to produce rapid cheap bite-size content to
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by rwhitman 6y ago
I've been a tech consultant in LA for more or less 15 years at this point. A very large portion of well funded, early stage startups that crash and burn in LA are typically because media people have a hard time conceptualizing lean sta
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by rwhitman 6y ago
Biting the hand that feeds him. I think this is a strategic miscalculation.
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by rwhitman 6y ago
Yea one of the ideas we're dabbling with is simply interviewing members of our team on various topics, and posting the interview transcript (our team is fairly camera shy)
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by rwhitman 6y ago
So I recently started helping my team adopt a B2B content marketing strategy, after being kind of removed from the marketing world for a few years... For a small bootstrapped business, with no writers in-house, fledgeling bare minimum resou
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by rwhitman 6y ago
Sunrise Integration | Junior Growth Hacker / Marketing & Sales Intern | Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA | Part-time | Remote | https://www.sunriseintegration.com We are SaaS app developers, specialized in enterprise data int
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by rwhitman 7y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Los Angeles, CA, remote ok We are SaaS app developers, specialized in enterprise data integrations for e-commerce and logistics but branching out a bit. Data integrations are our business, but we are truly a full-servic
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by rwhitman 7y ago
Sunrise Integration | Software Developers, Project Managers, Analysts | Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | Onsite & Remote | https://www.sunriseintegration.com We are SaaS app developers, specialized in enterprise data
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by rwhitman 7y ago
Sunrise Integration | Project Manager for E-Commerce Software & Software Engineers | Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.sunriseintegration.com We are SaaS app developers, specialized in enterprise
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by rwhitman 7y ago
Sunrise Integration | Software Developers & Project Managers | Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.sunriseintegration.com We are SaaS app developers, specialized in enterprise data integrations for
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by rwhitman 8y ago
The paper that this article cites is a far more interesting read than the summary: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1249KS8xtIDKb5SxgpeFI6AD-PSC...
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by rwhitman 8y ago
One of the trends I find most disturbing in business over the last few years is the nonchalant passing of the buck on hard business problems, down the food chain to software engineers. The Silicon Valley mantra of "software can change
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by rwhitman 8y ago
This interview should be held up as a definitive educational material for anyone working around social media platforms. Really shines an important spotlight on how bad actors manipulate digital information, and how to adjust business and me
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by rwhitman 8y ago
I started doing this, and the first stumbling block I hit was simply assessing at what level my math education falls apart and figuring out what courses I needed to refresh with, what materials I needed etc. There's a market opportunit
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by rwhitman 8y ago
I've been curious if there are any creative financial or work/education balance strategies for a tech professional going back to school, that might not be obvious? Networking with professors? Working at the university? Or finding
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by rwhitman 8y ago
Honestly "diversify" is not something I had ever considered before the last recession, and it runs contrary to most popular advice in consulting around finding a niche, but it becomes very apparent after you've weathered the
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by rwhitman 8y ago
> Why can't we have some sort licensing board like a medical board so that you prove you can code, and then interviews aren't so time consuming. That's a really interesting point. I think you may have just nailed why the s
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by rwhitman 8y ago
I was a freelance dev contractor in the 2008/2009 financial crisis. To what you said above, both can be true. But it depends on the client's business. I got completely crushed last time. But my clients were primarily in travel and
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by rwhitman 8y ago
Amen, 100% this. Same methods here, same success rate. I just had a long conversation this afternoon with a friend who manages a tech recruiter team and she was telling me how frustrating it is working for cash-strapped early stage startups
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by rwhitman 8y ago
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by rwhitman 8y ago
UpTrending | iOS, Android, Ruby, React Native, Angular Developers | USA | Full-Time Contract | Remote UpTrending is a technologist-centric digital agency, originally founded in Silicon Valley to service the marketing and technology needs of
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