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Lunch with the FT: Marc Andreessen(ft.com)
1 points by kloncks 12y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin Exchange CEO Pleads Guilty to Enabling Silk Road Drug Deals(wired.com)
63 points by kloncks 12y ago|47 comments
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The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me) (2006)(teslamotors.com)
24 points by kloncks 12y ago|3 comments
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Amazon Announces Mobile Credit Card Reader(wired.com)
2 points by kloncks 12y ago|0 comments
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ESPN Adds Tilt’s Group Payment Tech to Fantasy Football Apps(blogs.wsj.com)
4 points by kloncks 12y ago|0 comments
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by kloncks 12y ago
Why would it be valued north of $1b?
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by kloncks 12y ago
Bigger database, more current, more updated, easier to deal with, among other things :)
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by kloncks 12y ago
We charge less for debits vs credits, rather than giving a different fee for Visa vs MasterCard.
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by kloncks 12y ago
A bunch of different sources, including some bank databases. We also have to update it regularly.
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by kloncks 12y ago
We built this internally for our needs, then decided to give it out to any service that needs similar functionality. The first six cards of any card tells us some interesting information on the identity of the card, such as type (debit&#x2F
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Ribbon BIN API – Find out how your customers are paying(bins.ribbon.co)
41 points by kloncks 12y ago|16 comments
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Bitcoin Debit Card(xapo.com)
4 points by kloncks 12y ago|0 comments
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by kloncks 12y ago
No valuation, because of convertible debt No board seats Not a lot of money raised, so not as dilutive as typical Series A No expectation to hit "Series B" type metrics next time they raise
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by kloncks 12y ago
...and they're back.
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Marc Andreessen: Turn Detroit Into Drone Valley(politico.com)
58 points by kloncks 12y ago|27 comments
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The Irish Brothers Behind Stripe(on.ft.com)
2 points by kloncks 12y ago|2 comments
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AngelPad Thrives By Being The "Anti-Y Combinator"(strictlyvc.com)
2 points by kloncks 12y ago|0 comments
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Full Stack Startups(cdixon.org)
135 points by kloncks 13y ago|37 comments
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by kloncks 13y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by kloncks 13y ago
There's a ton of interest regarding bitcoins specifically in the office. We'll see what we can do.
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by kloncks 13y ago
I hope so!
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by kloncks 13y ago
We make all of our money from the merchant product that 10k merchants are using. We've been doing that for a while now. (o.ribbon.co) It allows us to build a consumer version and give it away for free :)
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by kloncks 13y ago
Our apologies! We'll be adding in a FAQ very soon. In mean-time, email me if you have any questions? hany@ribbon.co
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by kloncks 13y ago
(I work at Ribbon) Unfortunately, yes. I'm an Egyptian national myself, so I completely understand this concern and would love to add it very soon but given regulations, compliance and financial service hurdles, it will likely take a w
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Ribbon Launches P2P Payments App. No app or account required(techcrunch.com)
40 points by kloncks 13y ago|16 comments
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by kloncks 13y ago
If you're looking for payments buttons, Ribbon does that very well and we're about to expand that. Same focus on not requiring you to be a "pay API code ninja" to use. Drop me an email and I'll tell you more. hany@r
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Jelly Sees 100K Questions In First Week Of Which 25% Received Answers(techcrunch.com)
2 points by kloncks 13y ago|0 comments
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by kloncks 13y ago
Depends on the kind of company you want to build. The data proves that the kinds of companies that need a great engineering talent pool and venture capital will tend to hail just a couple of locations. I'm not saying there aren't
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by kloncks 13y ago
Have you used Square Wallet yet? Experience is awful. It is thought that BLE might be better tech that leads to a better experience.
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by kloncks 13y ago
Perhaps he was talking about examples like YC funding "100s of companies" (500? 600?) with less than half of what Clinkle has raised.

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