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Re:A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale by cbsmith on Friday February 20, 2015 @01:42PM (#9082034)
I'm getting a 404, and I can't decide if that's actually the lesson.
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Re:A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale by theptip on Friday February 20, 2015 @02:34PM (#9082415)
Oh the irony...
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Re:A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale by JamesSwift on Friday February 20, 2015 @03:19PM (#9082727)
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oTcbfZR...
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Re:A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale by aioprisan on Friday February 20, 2015 @01:34PM (#9081971)
Did you try to sign up with Stripe instead? You could get instantly approved and start processing that level of volume without any blockers from them.
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Re:A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale by joedavison on Friday February 20, 2015 @01:37PM (#9082002)
This story actually happened years ago; it was pre-Stripe.

The merchant account company simply had no clue about online businesses. Today there are a lot more options.

I actually wonder how Stripe does what they do -- I've heard nothing but great things about them. They must have some great banking connections behind the scenes.

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Re:A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale by thegreattd on Saturday February 21, 2015 @03:54AM (#9085108)
What was your company, may i get url?
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Re:A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale by segmondy on Friday February 20, 2015 @04:56PM (#9083326)
what's the name of the Merchant company?
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Re:A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale by joedavison on Friday February 20, 2015 @05:09PM (#9083402)
Innovative Merchant Solutions, a division of Intuit

http://www.innovativemerchant.com/

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Re:A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale by aioprisan on Friday February 20, 2015 @01:37PM (#9082001)
I just realized that this was posted in 2007, so Stripe wasn't an option back then. This just goes to show how much easier payment processing services like can help the economy grow and business flourish.
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Re:A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale by club7g1 on Friday February 20, 2015 @03:23PM (#9082754)
Why didn't you hop on a plane to the US early?
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