Archive for January, 2010

  • LetMeGo Now Works with PayPal-Only Lodgings, Too

    We have great news for lodgings that require travelers to submit booking prepayments via PayPal: LetMeGo now allows them to set “PayPal” as one of the payment methods that they accept. When a traveler decides to book an offer submitted by one of those...

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  • Job Opportunity: We Are Looking for Spanish- or Portuguese-Speaking Entrepreneurs

    Job Opportunity: We Are Looking for Spanish- or Portuguese-Speaking Entrepreneurs

    LetMeGo is a new online lodging agency that was recently selected as the best Latin American startup of 2009 (Spanish) (Portuguese). We are seeking individual entrepreneurs or teams, with or without experience, to launch Spanish and Portuguese versions of its service. These versions will target the markets...

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  • LetMeGo Is Open (beta) For Business!

    The last two years have been Ieading up to this post. I am ecstatic to finally be able to announce that LetMeGo is open for business–our public beta has officially launched. As a traveler, you and everyone you know can now submit your itinerary and...

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  • This is me doing what I do best: sitting behind a computer screen. Tania took this photo in 2002 as we started building Voice123.

    Public Relations and the LetMeGo Launch

    I don’t like doing myself what most people call “public relations” (PR). I personally don’t like to sell stuff, especially face-to-face. That is why, several years ago, I decided to move away from offering and selling professional services. I focused on building online marketplaces where...

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  • Listening the Minds of the Beta Testers

    The above title may seem a little odd, but it’s the best phrase I can come up with to express how I’ve felt when watching the user videos that usertesting.com have been delivering to us. Their testers are trained to speak their minds as they...

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  • The Dev Team of LetMeGo Gets Super-Sized

    The Dev Team of LetMeGo Gets Super-Sized

    I have written about the ideal size of development teams here and here. In short, I consider that a product developer and manager, like myself, should not try to handle a development team of more than six people. I’m currently managing seven or, better put, one...

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