billclerico

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   by billclerico 11y ago

   The key innovation is that they are building an economic, supersonic airplane. That was what SpaceX brought to space travel, and what has never been built in supersonic air travel.
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   WePay named 5th fastest growing startup in Silicon Valley – join us(wepay.com)

   1 points by billclerico 11y ago
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   WePay is growing fast in engineering, sales, support, risk and legal(wepay.com)

   1 points by billclerico 11y ago
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   WePay Is Hiring Site Reliability Engineers(boards.greenhouse.io)

   1 points by billclerico 11y ago
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   Help WePay build its next generation data platform and pipeline(wepay.com)

   1 points by billclerico 11y ago
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   by billclerico 11y ago

   I am really sorry to hear that - that is unacceptable. Would you mind sending me an email so I can make sure we improve? bill@wepay.com
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   by billclerico 11y ago

   It's a smattering of options: PayPal, Authorize.net, Stripe & Braintree are all good ones. We have folks that start with us from day 1, but typically fraud isn't too much of a concern until you start to really scale, and so o
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   by billclerico 11y ago

   Thanks for being an early customer. You can still use WePay to do online invoicing through one of our partners like Freshbooks (WePay Clear, our whitelabel product, powers Freshbooks Payments) or InvoiceASAP.
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   by billclerico 11y ago

   Thanks for the kind words. (Bill from WePay here) We keep a relatively low profile, since we focus primarily on marketplaces & platforms with >$10m in annual payment volume and take a pretty deep, enterprise approach with our custom
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    Payments company WePay (YC S09) raises $40M to go global(fortune.com)

    74 points by billclerico 11y ago|22 comments
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    congrats Slava, Mike & team. in an age of thin apps getting shipped in weeks or months, the patience you showed in spending 5 years developing some pretty hard-core technology is amazing. really excited for you guys!
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    10-25% seems too high to me for an options pool. I think market is closer to 7-10% for a Series A company
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    WePay cofounder here. Would love to better understand why you say that so we can improve. Bill@wepay.com
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience but would be happy to chat if you'd like. It's hard to say what exactly happened without some investigation. Bill@wepay.com
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    One side note (from a cofounder of WePay here). WePay is 100% focused on serving the needs of two-sided platforms like marketplaces - and now we're the only company that can claim to do so. We're bummed to see Balanced go, as I t
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    WePay is hiring engineers to build highly available and asynchronous systems(wepay.com)

    1 points by billclerico 12y ago
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    WePay is hiring engineers to build highly available and asynchronous systems(wepay.com)

    1 points by billclerico 12y ago
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    I think it's more likely associated with Spotlight vs a web search engine
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    As Google Looks To Expand Wallet Use, WePay (YC S09) Integrates Instant Buy API(techcrunch.com)

    2 points by billclerico 12y ago|0 comments
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    GoFundMe is an amazing story - 100% bootstrapped, based in San Diego, two awesome founders. (full disclosure, they're one of our partners at WePay)
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    GoFundMe Tops Kickstarter as World’s #1 Crowdfunding Platform(gofundme.com)

    91 points by billclerico 12y ago|42 comments
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    WePay is hiring software engineers

    1 points by billclerico 12y ago
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    it's interesting to see a spring surge in headlines & a fall surge in headlines - perhaps a result of the summer slowdown at VC firms.
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    We use a startup called TrueAccord at WePay - they're trying to disrupt this industry using data: https://www.trueaccord.com/
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    There's a number of data sources that we use - social data is just one category. So it helps, especially when other data sources are sparse, but isn't the end-all, be-all of identify verification.
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    It's configurable either way. But most applications will probably choose to own the whole experience and not offer a WePay-branded experience.
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    Our VP of Risk, John Canfield, was a senior leader on eBay's Trust & Safety team for almost a decade. He did a great talk on Veda, our risk engine, at QCon - check it out here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations&#x
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    Thanks! We believe that the payments are a commodity, but that good risk management is really valuable. One important item to note - WePay Clear is built for platforms - services that connect buyers and sellers like online marketplaces, cr
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    Bill from WePay here - thanks for asking. The value proposition of WePay Clear isn't entirely captured in TechCrunch's choice of a headline, though they certainly have sensationalized it by drawing a Stripe comparison. Yes, WePay
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    by billclerico 12y ago

    Bill from WePay here. You're absolutely right. "Freshbooks Payments" is way more compelling than "WePay account connected to Freshbooks". App developers historically have had to choose the latter in order to avoi