billclerico

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by billclerico 13y ago
Hi Keith - I'm sorry the shutdown is disruptive to your business. Discontinuing our direct-to-merchant products was a tough call for us and something we debated intensely. At the end of the day, unlike Stripe which is building broader
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by billclerico 13y ago
thanks! we'll fix that last part soon.
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by billclerico 13y ago
Bill from WePay here. Sorry you had that experience. EventSpot hasn't gone live with their integration yet, but they will before we shut down our Event tool. We'll do everything we can to make the transition smooth - please let
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by billclerico 13y ago
There's a much larger opportunity in serving other companies who are building specific usecases and need payment functionality, versus trying to be the best at everything yourself.
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by billclerico 13y ago
bloggers will be bloggers
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Payments startup WePay raises $15M, kills direct-to-consumer offering(venturebeat.com)
79 points by billclerico 13y ago|55 comments
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by billclerico 13y ago
Chris - I too would love to hear your payments wishlist. bill@wepay.com if you'd like to share.
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by billclerico 13y ago
WePay is hiring across several positions: - Developers - Product Managers - Controller - Recruiter Location is Palo Alto, CA H1B is welcome wepay.com/jobs for more detail
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by billclerico 13y ago
statutory minimum is 5k. we work with federal law enforcement somewhat frequently at wepay to deter fraud, and it appears that the informal threshold to get their interest is about 100k of damages
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by billclerico 13y ago
It's mostly driven by competition. Because all processors have to pay interchange (about 2-2.2%) at scale, and also cover fraud losses - there isn't much room to slash prices and still make a profit.
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by billclerico 13y ago
Hi there (I wrote the piece) - I didn't intend for this to get posted to HN. Per the post, it's a framework for more posts to come, where I intend to go into more detail. I'm sorry you didn't find it valuable.
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by billclerico 13y ago
congrats to the team. building payments is hard (braintree has been at it since 2007) and it's great to see a successful exit for a solid team & company
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by billclerico 13y ago
the block chain is public anyway...
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by billclerico 13y ago
IMHO "fake it til you make it" is sometimes necessary and sometimes it produces quick wins - but if you let it distract you from building authentic value then it is a net negative in the long term.
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by billclerico 13y ago
One of the biggest changes in my style as an entrepreneur from when I started WePay (4 years ago) to now is that I used to focus so much on "the sell" - but now I focus on the substance. It makes the selling far easier, and it ma
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by billclerico 14y ago
at wepay, we cold emailed & cold called fraternities at stanford to see if they would use our system to collect dues.
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by billclerico 14y ago
bill from wepay here. we're very interested in payments for service providers like freelancers & I would love to hear your thoughts on our invoicing, virtual terminal & payment button tools and if they'd be a good fit for your use
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Andreessen and Mixpanel Call for an End to “Bullshit Metrics”(allthingsd.com)
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The enterprise strikes back(sufficientlyadvanced.net)
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WePay is hiring in engineering, design, support, sales & risk(wepay.com)
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by billclerico 14y ago
i would argue that by joining facebook, they are maximizing the chances of improving the lives of millions of users
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WePay is hiring in engineering, design, support, sales & risk(wepay.com)
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Help over 50,000 small businesses get paid: WePay is hiring(wepay.com)
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WePay is hiring engineers & designers(wepay.com)
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IAmA Winner of "The Most Human Human" Award at a Turing Test. AMA(reddit.com)
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WePay: The Online Payment Start-up Behind Occupy Wall Street(forbes.com)
101 points by billclerico 15y ago|27 comments
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by billclerico 15y ago
hey guys - bill from wepay here. we contemplated building a JS solution as well, but using JS can place your site within the scope of PCI compliance. (this is somewhat up for debate) the reason we went with an iframe implementation is bec
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by billclerico 15y ago
We (WePay) charge 3.5% for donations. See https://www.wepay.com/about/fees
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WePay is hiring web engineers (and interns)
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Apple Takes iTunes to Other Kinds Of Payments(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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