I'm hiring an executive assistant to work alongside me and the team at Reaction Commerce. To be honest, I debated the title for this role, because it spans executive assistant, office manager, culture admin, and more! The details of the…
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Big News: Our Series A and our Marketplace Launch
It's a big day for us! We just announced Reaction Commerce's $8.5M Series A, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), and we've also announced our Marketplace launch. I couldn't be more excited for both of these major milestones. We…
Please Star Reaction on GitHub
We're a small, early-stage startup. We don't have a big team. We don't have a lot of money. We are, in essence, the underdog. We depend on friends and community to help us, inspire us, and lead us. "It…
Meet Reaction v1.0.0: Our General Availability Release!
Big news! Today, we're announcing the General Availability release of Reaction Commerce. We're now officially out of Beta, and while we've always been open (source), we're open for business! Here's my first-ever tweetstorm announcing our v1.0.0: Today at…
3,000 Stars
We reached 3,000 stars on our main Reaction Commerce GitHub repo! Thank you to our community for all the feedback and support. We're just getting started!…
This is Focus (Year Three Startup Thoughts)
Last month, we celebrated the three year anniversary since we started Reaction Commerce. For those following along, I wrote “This is Hard” about the first year, and “This is Interesting” about year two. For me, year three was all about…
They’d Just Build Their Own Solution
When I was out pitching Reaction Commerce to attract potential Venture Capital financing earlier this year, I got this rejection, and it still irks me: “We see an opportunity to capture those merchants (on legacy platforms) who grow too big…
Open Source and Business
When I told friends I was starting a company that was building an open source commerce platform, they asked me how I would make money giving away software for free. Then, when we were fundraising, a Venture Capitalist said, “In…