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Founder Uncertainty is Inevitable

October 7, 2011 · By Rich Aberman · Comments
This article was originally printed in Business Insider. Link to full article below! I just read a post by Ben Pieratt, the CEO of Svpply, a social shopping site from New York City. Ben recently raised half-a-million dollars in investment, and he admits to ... Read on

Why WePay is Hiring

September 29, 2011 · By Eric Stern · Comments
It’s no secret WePay is growing. With more customers and more success, though, comes more responsibility. We need to divvy up some of that responsibility to new hires, as there is just too much work for this small group anymore. We’re ... Read on

How not to recruit for a startup

September 21, 2011 · By Rich Aberman · Comments
Over the past two months, we've gone from asking "how do we know when to scale" to "holy crap, we need to scale." Things have been going well. Thirteen months ago we raised $7.5M in venture financing. Since then, we've maintained ... Read on

Holiday Sales for Online Selling Newbies

September 9, 2011 · By Jenn Escalona · Comments
It’s one of the big secrets of the commerce world – one of the few times you’re going to make a real profit with your business (sometimes called going “in the black”) is during the holidays. It’s true for retail ... Read on

API Development and Attendstar Partnership

September 8, 2011 · By Jenn Escalona · Comments
To further our relationship with the many merchants and entrepreneurs who rely on WePay, we’ve recently strengthened our API to include subscriptions support. Our interface was already easy to use and helpful, but we feel these new additions have really ... Read on

How to Get Started Selling Online

July 28, 2011 · By Jenn Escalona · Comments
When starting up a new ecommerce store, you want to have all the help you can get. It sometimes gets a little daunting when confronted with all the issues that come up – not just major issues, but the day ... Read on
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Picking a fight with an 800 pound gorilla

February 28, 2011 · By Rich Aberman · Comments
When I learned that my good friends over at Mixpanel, a real-time analytics service, decided to take out a billboard on highway 101 to declare war on Google analytics, I began thinking about whether picking a fight with an 800 ... Read on