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"Switching from contractors to employees was costly, and 5-10% quit as they prefered to remain contractors."


I highly doubt it, unless they've recently hired a genius. They've been struggling to explain what the Pan Am Games are to the Toronto residents over 18 months. Not a PR hit so far.


Toronto resident, can confirm. I've heard more #panawful puns than I can count, but still have no clue what the games are.


I don't see what's traditional in this plan. It takes an hour to fill, 10 minutes to update. It's not a huge commitment, and you can always change direction, but in the meantime everyone on the team is on the same page.

A lot of founders just don't know how to get started with marketing. Now I can link to this. This a better time investment to fill this out than to read half of the so called marketing advice you can find online.


I don't think it has anything to do with time, but with this definition: An organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Or Paul G.'s: startup = growth.


Great work guys, onboarding is well done, I started using the product only 5 minutes in.



Do you know what no score means? Pushbullet seem like they should have one.


We don't score companies until we have 4 weeks of data, so for some that we haven't been tracking for long we just don't have enough info yet - sorry!


Has anyone ever studied whether momentum is a good measure for eventual success (whatever that might mean)?


Mattermark is fairly new, so I doubt that many companies would have had a concrete track record of success.


Exactly. We have 1 year of data, and are certainly backtesting. So far the only thing we can really test is whether momentum helps with fundraising... more on that soon


Good to hear! I was thinking of doing something similar, but no reason to duplicate effort


With Kimono #1, scraping websites is alive and well! I wish Pushbullet had a score, very useful tool.


Why no name?


Cool spreadsheet, will compare with my own data.


Thanks for sharing!


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