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I first met Ethan in 2005. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. ” When merchants sign up MyTime then helps them with marketing activities through marketing automation tools they’ve build across SEM, social, and email.

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And our software allowed us to offer: tighter pick-up windows, better utilization of “uploader staff” and to launch new products & services that I won’t discuss because they’re in development now. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.

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