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Gamification of the workplace(online.wsj.com)
14 points by pitdesi 15y ago|12 comments
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by pitdesi 15y ago
"Rabois says that Square’s merchants now represent 10 percent of the transactions in the Visa/MasterCard world." This is either a) completely untrue, or b) a clever play on words (I don't know what "Square's merchants" means) 800k card read
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How to pick a designer(blog.folyo.me)
1 points by pitdesi 15y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Acquires Social Q&A Service Friend.ly(techcrunch.com)
4 points by pitdesi 15y ago|0 comments
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Brain linked to robotic hand(postgazette.com)
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Richard Feynman on Beauty(youtube.com)
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Quora engineer pays tribute to Steve Jobs in New York Times crossword(thenextweb.com)
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Thx To Whole Foods, LivingSocial Grew 5 Times Faster Than Groupon in Sept(techcrunch.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
I don't know Amit personally but have interacted with him a bunch because he's a customer, and he is a really awesome guy. If you are in Chicago and South Asian, I'm hosting an event next Thursday where we'll be doing cheek swabs: http://w
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Sequoia Capital tribute to Steve Jobs(sequoiacap.com)
3 points by pitdesi 15y ago|0 comments
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Randy Pausch, another tremendous person who died too young of pancreatic cancer, had some recommendations: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
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by pitdesi 15y ago
I'm surprised at how sad (devastated?) this news makes me. I use Apple products now, but I am not at all a fanboy of the company and for many years defended the other side. I really hate the proprietary nature of many of their products and
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by pitdesi 15y ago
I think the world has changed drastically in the past few years... I can provide perspective from working for a startup in SF in 06-07 and a startup in Chicago now... In Chicago noone thinks you're unemployed if you say you work for a start
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Great idea. Here's how we market our website, may be helpful: http://feefighters.com/blog/how-to-market-your-website/
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by pitdesi 15y ago
You have no idea how much I would love to! It's a tough problem to solve, but the internet as a whole is getting there with crowdsourced review sites. I think Google is actually the most poised to solve this problem at the moment, and I'm i
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Search goes up on tablets at night(om.wordpress.com)
1 points by pitdesi 15y ago|0 comments
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Interesting sidenote on that... When the BBB contacted us the first time, they referenced that they searched through their records and couldn't find a company named xpay... pretty funny that they didn't realize that xpay was a pseudonym (e
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by pitdesi 15y ago
You are totally correct, although it depends wildly on who your customer is (IE older people grew up trusting the BBB, younger folks don't care). We had an internal argument about whether doing this was the right thing or not for our busine
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Criticize The Better Business Bureau... And They'll Pull Your Accreditation(techdirt.com)
11 points by pitdesi 15y ago|2 comments
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Groupon’s IPO Valuation Could End Up Being Less Than $6 Billion(techcrunch.com)
14 points by pitdesi 15y ago|2 comments
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How Many Investors is Too Many? A Guideline for Seed Rounds(builtinchicago.org)
1 points by pitdesi 15y ago|0 comments
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Groupon's influence on Yelp ratings(technologyreview.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Saying that you want to use our service helps us know that it is worth our while, yes... but in terms of issues, there are a few things: The overarching theme is that the payments industry is much more complicated than it seems to the layma
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by pitdesi 15y ago
We are trying to get Samurai ( http://samurai.feefighters.com ) into Europe. We don't have a firm timetable just yet though. If you'd like to be notified when it happens, please enter your email address here: https://docs.google.com/a/tran
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Did Congress Kill the Debit Card?(theatlantic.com)
2 points by pitdesi 15y ago|0 comments
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by pitdesi 15y ago
You got it. We don't handle the recurring stuff for you, but we give you back a token that lets you bill your customer cards on a recurring basis. We have other customers who are doing this on their own.
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by pitdesi 15y ago
US/Canada, startups and non-startups. 2/3rds of our businesses are online (mostly startups), 1/3rd brick and mortar. I don't have a better breakdown than that at my fingertips. Average size of our customer is fairly large, skewed by several
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by pitdesi 15y ago
EDIT: removed so as to not hijack another announcement. Was not the intention, just wanted to offer something people thought was useful.
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AOL + TechCrunch One Year Anniversary: A Look Back And A Look Forward(uncrunched.com)
7 points by pitdesi 15y ago|1 comments
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Count me in the group that finds $250 to be a steal for this sort of thing. Your mission page is spot on. The amount of time/headache it takes to brand a startup should not be underestimated. I think that the logos are fine to get started q

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