Startup

Not raising funds to stay small and happy

“Any plans to raise funds?” is a question I get a lot. Here are a few of the reasons why we intend to stay bootstrapped.

Conventional wisdom says you start building an MVP, maybe acquire a few customers and raise funds. If you go…

Getting hired as a remote worker

Over the last few months, I got to do about a hundred interviews to hire new members of our remote team. Here are the most frequent issues I experienced. Most of them seem obvious, but you would be surprised how frequently they happened.

Uptime target for regular SaaS

We’ve been thinking a lot lately about uptime at Email Hunter. Today, I thought I would share our thoughts regarding this issue. As context, you should know we’re running a small non-mission critical (as opposed for example to a payment platform) SaaS. We have a team of 3…

The real legal question for your startup

In France, we love to complain how Google, Airbnb or Uber aren’t French companies. Reasons are numerous but I’ll look at this issue from the point of legal regulations. Specifically, how companies can find themselves pioneering a new sector both commercially…