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Shopify Raises $100 Million

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Re: Shopify Raises $100 Million

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Post by steve_benjamins »

bradleyjg wrote: post #21
fourspace wrote: post #6

Great news. Shopify is the one piece of ecommerce software we use that isn't completely maddening. (Having a fantastic API is a large reason why.) I was struck by this comment, though: "Using Shopify and Shopify POS together reveals our true ambition: To be the first company in the world that fuses all the distinct parts that are needed to run a complete modern commerce business - all in one amazing product." If anyo…

Just FYI cinemaguy23 & stevebenjamins you guys are both hellbanned. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745880 for more info. IIRC, some people have had success emailing info@ycombinator.com to get unbanned. Edit: state, if you don't have showdead=yes set in your preferences then you won't see the hellbanned posts. I don't know about the posts that got them hellbanned in the first place, but the dead ones here…

Thanks for the heads up- I have no idea why I was hellbanned ...

Re: Shopify Raises $100 Million

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Post by mahyarm »

richardlblair wrote: post #30
smalter wrote: post #26

Echoing other commentators' sentiments that Shopify is a remarkable company: Last year, we found out that a group of folks at Shopify were using my company's product, iDoneThis, when Tobi Lutke (CEO) emailed me about a customer service issue. They were by far our highest profile customers and we were super amped to have them. We thought, how cool would it be to visit Shopify up in Ottawa, get to know them and see how…

Thanks for the shout out! I'm glad you enjoyed the great white north!

How has it been like running, starting and hiring a company in Canada? Did the founders have experience in the SFBA?

Re: Shopify Raises $100 Million

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Post by gravitronic »

ihsw wrote: post #34
xal wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

we are hiring Go developers :-)

My experience with Ruby and RoR is fairly limited, and I have no experience with unit testing (very embarrassing). I'm not sure I'd be a good fit for Shopify. :( That said, I've recently had a dire need for concurrency on a personal project and Go fits the role very perfectly. It's also a very "clean" language to work with, and I distinctly get the impression that doing things "the Go way" leaves very little opportun…

We hire developers who have no ruby or rails experience all the time at Shopify.

Re: Shopify Raises $100 Million

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Post by 3pt14159 »

xal wrote: post #31
ihsw wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another Ottawa developer here. I went to a few OCLUG meetings a decade ago (when they were still at the Main library branch) but I've been meaning to check it since they moved it to Shopify's offices. I think it might be fun going to OCLUG meetings again. :) They're a paragon of the developer community and they host a variety of developer-related events on a regular basis, for example the recent Random Hacks of Kindn…

we are hiring Go developers :-)

I love how the CEO of Shopify is on HN getting talent the day he closes the $100m round. Thanks for Active Merchant, btw, it is awesome. Liquid is cool too.

Re: Shopify Raises $100 Million

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Post by kin »

niamh wrote: post #39
kevando wrote: post #25

Not the move I expected. POS integration has always been a huge challenge so I guess they're saying their online experience is good enough to shift focus away? It will be interesting to see how this move pans out.

I'm surprised to see this fundraise. They have a strong customer base and I worry when good companies get a huge investments like this and how it could affect the future of the company, it's growth, culture etc.

I was thinking the same thing. A huge round like this has me guessing they've got a hefty plan beyond improving just their current products. Others are mentioning that a shopping cart isn't enough, it's the apps. Maybe they plan on going that route either hiring to build them in house or using this money to buy those apps.

Re: Shopify Raises $100 Million

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Post by soundlab »

state wrote: post #22
fourspace wrote: post #6

Great news. Shopify is the one piece of ecommerce software we use that isn't completely maddening. (Having a fantastic API is a large reason why.) I was struck by this comment, though: "Using Shopify and Shopify POS together reveals our true ambition: To be the first company in the world that fuses all the distinct parts that are needed to run a complete modern commerce business - all in one amazing product." If anyo…

It's so true. I spend the majority of my time working for a company that sells physical products, and we roll everything ourselves. Managing fulfillment, integrating with accounting, and basic CRM among a medium-sized team is an enormous task that's completely underserved by Shopify (or anyone else for that matter). Knowing a good handful of other small to medium-sized business owners I know we're not alone in this (…

+1 I've found that the major bottleneck in all this for SMB's is Intuit's Quickbooks- whose terribly unstable sync/integration capability requires 5 different 3rd party systems just to receive an online order via your e-commerce cart, fill a phone order, input a purchase order received by email/fax..

And that's before you even get to pick/pack/ship an item and sync to your company file in QB, drawn down inventory on hand, send tracking info to your customer and update your CRM...

There seem to be a handful of startup software co's in this space but none can handle the entire picture:

methodintegration.com lettuceapps.com

Re: Shopify Raises $100 Million

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Post by alanctgardner2 »

purephase wrote: post #36
noarchy wrote: post #16

I don't work at Shopify, but I've been grateful to them for allowing many of the local dev meetups here in the Ottawa area to use their fantastic space for our meetings. So I am glad to see things going so well for them.

I just moved to Ottawa a few weeks. Any advice on finding out more about the local dev meetups? It's too bad I just missed out on that humanitarian hack-a-thon. Sounds like it would have been fun and worthwhile.

If you need some help with developer events in the Ottawa area feel free to get in touch. I typically do Ottawa Javascript, Ruby Tuesday and sometimes the ArtEngine Modlab as well.

Re: Shopify Raises $100 Million

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Post by bjeanes »

smalter wrote: post #26

Echoing other commentators' sentiments that Shopify is a remarkable company: Last year, we found out that a group of folks at Shopify were using my company's product, iDoneThis, when Tobi Lutke (CEO) emailed me about a customer service issue. They were by far our highest profile customers and we were super amped to have them. We thought, how cool would it be to visit Shopify up in Ottawa, get to know them and see how…

We use iDoneThis at Heroku. I love it so much. Thanks for building an awesome and simple tool.

Re: Shopify Raises $100 Million

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Post by edwardog »

ihsw wrote: post #35
eswat wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely. When I moved here two years ago people complained that the government town image of Ottawa was reflecting on the startup scene and how there were no outlets for those that wanted to talk about their work or the industry. But, in addition to the organizers that run these awesome events, Shopify actually did something about it. AFAIK they will be keeping the lounge after they move to Elgin, which is a nice…

> after they move to Elgin This has not been confirmed.

Confirmed: http://www.obj.ca/Real-Estate/Non-residential/2013-12-12/art...
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