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by arfrank 12y ago
We're partnering with a banking institution to issue a new line of credit to consumers.
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by arfrank 12y ago
Card design standards have been changing in the last year. We'll be issuing a card over the V/MC/Amex network, which requires the card to have a network logo on it. Exact branding is battle we know we will have to fight wit
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by arfrank 12y ago
Thanks, looking into this right now.
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by arfrank 12y ago
CTO/Co-Founder of Final here. Final is what we built to take back control of our own credit cards for how and when we’re charged, instead of leaving it up to merchants. That led to merchant-specific numbers and limits, managed automati
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Final – A credit card built for the 21st century(getfinal.com)
517 points by arfrank 12y ago|358 comments
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by arfrank 12y ago
Looks like Apple's commission is ~15-25 BPS for participating banks (from those banks): "The biggest “surprise” over last 2 months is that Apple has squeezed 15-25bps from the 5-6 participating banks at launch (C, BAC, COF, J
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by arfrank 12y ago
Curious to hear what innovations you see coming down the pipeline? The spec also discusses loyalty programs via tokenization, but no one has yet to implement them to my knowledge.
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by arfrank 12y ago
It erodes, but also enables you to focus on your companies core competency rather than payments. Also viewing this through the lens that e-commerce view shopping cart conversion rates, this might up initial conversion for new services, whic
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by arfrank 12y ago
Looks like Apple's commission is ~15-25 BPS for participating banks The biggest “surprise” over last 2 months is that Apple has squeezed 15-25bps from the 5-6 participating banks at launch (C, BAC, COF, JPM, Amex and perhaps WFC).
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by arfrank 13y ago
Also what % return are mutual fund and mutual fund-like investors looking for over the next decade? If 5-year average is (5-25)% loosely then you're either looking at an investment that blows that return out of the water, or doesn&#x2
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by arfrank 13y ago
My gut reaction is that if you could get in early enough on the next Starbucks it could return a large enough payoff to be worth the risk.
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by arfrank 15y ago
Boulder, CO Simple Energy - TechStars company http://www.simpleenergy.com 4 Positions: http://www.simpleenergy.com/jobs * Product Manager (gaming experience pref'd) * Front-End Engineer * Back-End Engineer * SysAdmin/DevOps Simple Energ
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Steve Jobs on intelligence(blog.leetsoft.com)
12 points by arfrank 15y ago|2 comments
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Simple Energy And SDG&E Team Up To Encourage Conservation Through Gaming(techcrunch.com)
2 points by arfrank 15y ago|0 comments
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by arfrank 15y ago
FYI: There are error in the display of the blogpost announcing it at: http://blog.recurly.com/
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by arfrank 15y ago
Since your probably checking here, might as well ask. Any plans for an API, so I can build a web app of some sort, send image data and user over to your site for payment, and have you send out their creation?
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by arfrank 15y ago
Bugherd, last time I used it, did a js embed widget for website/design changes/feedback. May have changed, but it was a neat idea then.
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Push Pop Press: Al Gore's Our Choice(pushpoppress.com)
1 points by arfrank 15y ago|0 comments
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by arfrank 15y ago
This is essentially just 2 small excerpts from the actual book, and a short video interview. Here are two other excepts (from a previous HN article) of the book that also link to a free preview of the first chapter. https://kindle.amazon.c
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by arfrank 15y ago
There are two excepts of the book at the bottom of the answer that also link to a free preview of the first chapter. I'd recommend reading the preview even if you don't plan on buying the book right now. https://kindle.amazon.com/post/1EJF
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by arfrank 16y ago
I hope with 41M of funding and 18-24 months until they need to raise again that they are willing to throw out many revisions of their product until they get one that truly "revolutionizes" life. Right now so much is focused on hype and so
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by arfrank 16y ago
A couple of things stick out from this numbers wise: * 7 founders (~14% split evenly, unlikely though) * 41M raised * Staff of 27 (obviously get some equity) Some valuation math: (Dilution) Pre-Money Post-Money (Founder dilution from ~14.28
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Color Launches Implicit Proximity-Based Social Network for Smartphones(networkeffect.allthingsd.com)
2 points by arfrank 16y ago|0 comments
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by arfrank 16y ago
It looks like you never set a favicon from the default given by html5boilerplate.
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by arfrank 16y ago
Stole it from twilio to be honest. Also depending on who works there Legos or some other childhood toys to allow for creative times away from the computer.
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by arfrank 16y ago
A monthly book stipend
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What's the overlooked gem, the book I haven't read that I must?(ted.com)
2 points by arfrank 16y ago|0 comments
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NYC 2011 Music Hack Day Hacks(wiki.musichackday.org)
1 points by arfrank 16y ago|0 comments
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by arfrank 16y ago
People have already forked it, obviously as a joke: https://github.com/TeMPOraL/dna/network
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App Engine 1.4.2 SDK - API Updates and Additions Edition(googleappengine.blogspot.com)
27 points by arfrank 16y ago|6 comments

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