adammcnamara
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Entrepreneur. Former VP Product at Shopify and co-founder of Select Start (acquired).
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Comment · 4 years ago
This is window dressing:
1. Many foreign buyers buy through a child studying in Canada or numbered company.
2. Canada’s immigration (~400,000/year) far outpaces housing completions (~200,000/year, of which only 50,000 are single family homes). Many of these are replacing existing housing stock, too.
Comment · 8 years ago
Community.
Inspiration to pursue big problems.
Inspiration to always be learning.
Comment · 9 years ago
Food Rules by Michael Pollan - for understanding food and nutrition
Sapiens - for understanding what it means to be human
The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant - for understanding groups of humans (civilization)
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks - for understanding investing
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin - for understanding mental models in general
Comment · 9 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
Congrats to the Shopify team.
Comment · 12 years ago
How frequently does the site update after new data is added? A few more cities have reached 100% but haven't appeared on the index page yet.
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks for sharing.
Comment · 12 years ago
Countries like Canada have done exactly this, extending anti-money laundering and terrorist financing disclosure rules to BTC.
http://www.coindesk.com/federal-bitcoin-law-canada/
The real benefit is time of transfer. ACH is infuriatingly slow. If you'd like a payroll run to arrive in employee accounts on a Friday, it must be initiated almost a week prior.
BTC could (theoretically) make daily payroll possible. The net benefit to society could be substantial. Payday loan activity would drop considerably. Some, but not all, credit card use would drop. All of the instruments that help "time shift" money could become far less necessary, along with the substantial fees associated with it.
Comment · 13 years ago
Shopify (Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Canada). http://www.shopify.com/careers
If you're interested in ecommerce, physical retail (point of sale), or payments product management, talk to me directly. We have many positions I haven't posted yet.
Comment · 13 years ago
http://docs.shopify.com/api
Order creation will be open soon.
Comment · 13 years ago
A beta of Shopify Reports actually launched today as well. We're starting with point of sale customers, then bringing all merchants on shortly. http://docs.shopify.com/manual/your-store/8-reports
Comment · 13 years ago
We don't package one in the Hardware Kit, but there is bluetooth barcode scanning integration. http://docs.shopify.com/pos/about-pos/hardware/barcode-scann...
Comment · 13 years ago
A good number of our stores sell > $1M/month. And, now that Shopify 2 has shipped, any feature gaps that were around are closing very quickly.
Comment · 13 years ago
Thanks for the tip.