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We’re looking for a few great salespeople. What’s worked for us: we’re compassionate, cheery, and helpful. We love small food businesses; we’ve been there ourselves. We want to coa…

We are a mechanical-engineer-founded, Kitchener/Waterloo startup fresh from Y Combinator (W2016). We make it possible for brands to buy custom packaging in low quantities – and gro…

We are an engineer-founded, Kitchener/Waterloo startup fresh from Y Combinator (W2016). We make it possible for brands to buy custom packaging in low quantities – and grow their bu…

Hmm can you tell me where you found that link?

Totally agree! :D We love generating design ideas, packaging inspiration, and sharing business tips for small companies, since in many ways we're a hub in the most splendid communi…

Thanks! :)

I think you're talking about the value of branding as a whole, more than necessarily our role within that world... of course not everybody excels equally in that. One of the reason…

We work with a variety of factories in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, which is a big packaging manufacturing region. Packaging manufacturing is very fragmented - most factories are …

Agreed and thanks for the support :)

Thank you!

Haha yes!! :D This is great.

Boxes take a lot of love (and heavy machinery) to make. :) But seriously we're actually really competitive with companies who do a similar quality of unbranded boxes. For custom op…

Hmm I'm not sure what you're comparing Pakible (or us?) to... but a box that is manufactured in North America just for you, with your branding, still costs more than a plain box ma…

Pakible is awesome and we love them! :D They specialize in corrugated shipper boxes. We do paperboard retail boxes.

Neat idea! :D

Apologies for the big block of text, I clearly haven't figure out how to make paragraphs on here. :p [Returns to box-making].

Yes, a lot of small businesses use generic boxes and a sticker. When I owned my bakery, I did the same. That's not to say that this solution is ideal; most of the generic boxes are…

I think it depends on the goals you have for your business - there's a huge gap between little local spots that don't invest in being memorable, and major chains that everybody kno…

Agreed! This is why we exist.. we want the small businesses of the world to have the same fighting chance to be known, recognized, grow sales, and create jobs locally.

Thanks very much! :D My e-mail is sarah@georgettepackaging.com, I'd love to hear from her :)

Hi guys :) I'm Sarah, the founder of Georgette. Super excited to be on Hacker News and to answer any questions anybody might have...!