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Mainly debt instruments (loans, lines of credit, etc.) and occasionally preferred shares.

Quebec probably has the single best cooperative financing ecosystem in the world (1B+$). There’s a need for more risk-driven investment instruments in the sector however to seed ea…

Welp, there goes another SaaS platform in our corporate ops toolchain. Anyone have a recommendation for a tool to handle the cap table for an early-stage cooperative with several h…

This was a fundamental question for me before taking the plunge into starting a coop. Long story short, I did a lot of research and there wasn’t anything that really compensated ri…

Our coop took part in start.coop. Open to answering questions from anyone interested in starting a cooperative startup!

This is good feedback though, as I had the same issues. It shows the value of launching and iterating quickly with user feedback, rather than building in the dark in the guise of p…

Managing the dispatch of our delivery drivers and monitoring our infra over the holidays. Wish there was some way to bond with others that are on-call while being on-call. It’s lon…

Our venture-backed cooperative startup board has 1/3rd of its seats reserved for its employees, which incorporates both corporate staff (devs, marketing, etc) and operational staff…

IMHO as someone who participated in a lot of these non-equity corporate accelerators, both as a startup and as part of the technical teams supporting the initiatives (at two differ…

Send me an email (bio), organizing something with a couple of others!

Send me an email (in bio) and I’ll schedule a time!

Shoot moi un courriel (bio) et je m’occupe du doodle !

Montréal, anyone? :)

Didn't mean to imply that they were necessarily doing anything wrong or right (and I tried to clarify that with the last sentence of my post). In my book, "taking down a notch" mea…

I could include another dozen or companies that I would target in this question. FAANG is simply a stand-in. I guess we could go with GAMA instead.

It seems like Stripe has an article on how to migrate data to their platform without business interruption on their site. I would imagine others would have similar instructions ava…

For the average person, it’s hard to imagine a world where the GAMA are not so utterly dominant. However, there’s clearly a precedent of “nothing lasts for ever” in tech with forme…

Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Maister. No longer doing consulting, but found it invaluable as a tech person building a consulting team and trying to break into en…

Thanks for the tips. We’ve implemented some of these measures already and it has helped. We’ve had phone verification from day one for example. we try to balance the opportunity co…

That’s an incredible margin. Is this gross before paying out drivers or after? The suggestion for a local payment processor is a good one. We have another processing entity here in…

That’s what I would have thought… Not to mention that with the in-person data we have from our drivers that other online merchants don’t, they would be able to sus out entire netwo…

I don’t know if it would materially affect the individual offender. Lot of them are actually just teenagers. And the time cost for us would not be insignificant. That being said, i…

We’ve had phone verification since day one. We’ve left the secondary verification stuff up to Stripe, maybe that’s the next place to look. To be fair, the card fraud is not driving…

This begets the question, why present a backend demo to a non-technical audience? Almost every time I’ve done this, the tech part was glossed over as the audience assumed I was pre…