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> 6. Get somebody to come to my house, pick up my dry cleaning and drop it back off the next day (Amazon "Clean"). Isn't this what HomeJoy is doing? If not, I

by S4M 12y ago

> 6. Get somebody to come to my house, pick up my dry cleaning and drop it back off the next day (Amazon "Clean"). Isn't this what HomeJoy is doing? If not, I have a friend who tried that, but failed. I'd be happy to forward his details. > 9. Send $10,000 to my caretaker in France and have her get the cash and withdraw it from an ATM that same day. Within Europe, you can. > 10. Get investors for my startup by advertising the stock offering on the web and selling shares directly. Isn't that what KickStarter does? > 11. Get a quick, binding divorce online. I think it's better that you can't divorce that way.

swombat 12y ago
> Isn't that what KickStarter does? And a whole bunch of other crowdfunding sites in the UK - Crowdcube, Seedrs, etc. I don't know what the equivalents are in the US, but I'm sure they exist...
k-mcgrady 12y ago
>> Isn't that what KickStarter does? No you can't offer a % of your company as a reward on Kickstarter. I think AngelList is probably closest with syndicated deals.
jotm 12y ago
On 9. - you can't just send or withdraw $10,000 - you need to go to the bank, declare the purpose of this transfer, sign some papers and then wait a few days for it to be cleared. The limit varies between countries. Money laundering laws and all that. Some banks actually decline large withdrawals (but not transfers) if you have a weak/suspicious reason ("I want to buy five 3D LED TVs today" :-)).
pmontra 12y ago
Transferring money across countries in Europe (and even across different banks in the same country) is not that fast. Maybe it takes a couple of days. Doing it with PayPal is probably the closest thing to instantaneous transfers. However actually getting those money out of the bank or PayPal as banknotes is more difficult. The times when banks and states where letting go the money in their vaults are long gone. Larger greeds and larger debts mean that there are de facto limits to how much you can cash out per day. I don't even want to think about what I should go through to get 10,000 EUR in cash at my bank.

by S4M 12y ago

swombat 12y ago

> Isn't that what KickStarter does? And a whole bunch of other crowdfunding sites in the UK - Crowdcube, Seedrs, etc. I don't know what the equivalents are in the US, but I'm sure they exist...

k-mcgrady 12y ago

>> Isn't that what KickStarter does? No you can't offer a % of your company as a reward on Kickstarter. I think AngelList is probably closest with syndicated deals.

jotm 12y ago

On 9. - you can't just send or withdraw $10,000 - you need to go to the bank, declare the purpose of this transfer, sign some papers and then wait a few days for it to be cleared. The limit varies between countries. Money laundering laws and all that. Some banks actually decline large withdrawals (but not transfers) if you have a weak/suspicious reason ("I want to buy five 3D LED TVs today" :-)).

pmontra 12y ago

Transferring money across countries in Europe (and even across different banks in the same country) is not that fast. Maybe it takes a couple of days. Doing it with PayPal is probably the closest thing to instantaneous transfers. However actually getting those money out of the bank or PayPal as banknotes is more difficult. The times when banks and states where letting go the money in their vaults are long gone. Larger greeds and larger debts mean that there are de facto limits to how much you can cash out per day. I don't even want to think about what I should go through to get 10,000 EUR in cash at my bank.