Summer of 2015. We were riding on a train following the border of Switzerland’s beautiful Lac Léman. I was scotched to the window, soaking in the scenery, agape. The view was astonishing, to say the least. Paris was our next stop; we had to host a booth at a

Unless you’ve been living under a digital rock for the last few months, you’ve undoubtedly heard the buzzing echo of the raging ad blocking debates. And since Apple dropped a metaphorical bomb on the matter [http://time.com/4052033/apple-iphone-ios-9-ad-blockers/] by allowing ad blockers apps on their iOS

Towards the end of last year, a nice guy named Kevin William David (founder of Walletkit, 500 Startups [http://500.co/]) submitted Snipcart to the vibrant Product Hunt community [https://www.producthunt.com/]. On Saturday morning, October 10th, our shopping cart platform for developers reached #2 of the front page.

Picture this: It’s 9 AM in beautiful Québec City. I’m sitting at my desk, attentively scanning the latest Snipcart mentions on Tweetdeck [https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/]. No mention shall escape my sight.Then I come across a tweet that goes something like: Hey, anyone used Snipcart for e-commerce

Let us start with two simple questions: What’s the best time to plant a tree? Answer: Ten years ago. What’s the second best time to plant a tree? Answer: Right now. At a smaller scale, the exact same thing can be said of content marketing for startups or

A few months ago, we had a heated discussion among the team. We were asking ourselves if we were ought to make our powered by link mandatory for all users. Since our launch, our users have always been able to hide the link easily. Here’s a picture of what

Like many startups and content marketing enthusiasts, I read GrooveHQ’s blog [https://www.groovehq.com/blog] regularly (it’s long positioned itself as a must-read in the industry, really). Around the end of 2014, Alex from Groove published a post titled 10 Ways We Come Up With 15+ Blog

In Fall ‘14, I stayed four months in Colorado to try and develop the market for Snipcart. In a previous post [https://snipcart.com/blog/getting-into-a-new-startup-scene-colorado], I’ve outlined the story and lessons regarding getting into a new startup scene. In this post, I’ll focus on the pitches aspect

In the last half of 2014, I decided I’d go to the US to finish a few university classes during the fall semester. Colorado was high (no pun intended) on the list of places I was interested in: breathtaking landscapes, epic mountains, quality skiing and, of course, a vibrant

We all need to hustle our way to success. However awesome a startup’s product or service may be, it won’t be worth a penny if the right people don’t know about it. If there is no significant growth in the user base over a significant period of