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by salman89 14y ago
He may be exaggerating, but what he is trying to say is that he rather not invest in a tool/platform whose product development is out of his control and may be on a path contrary to what he wants out of said tool.
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by salman89 14y ago
Perhaps there is a market for a crowdfunding payment processor. Such payment processor could then focus on regulations and legal implications.
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by salman89 14y ago
Sorry, should have clarified. I meant the transaction fees that Square pays.
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by salman89 14y ago
While I agree with some of your points here, you are ignoring that an Amex user does not have a second card based method of purchase. I would assume that most Amex users always have another method of payment, considering how likely they are
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by salman89 14y ago
Will have an impact also in terms of economies of scale. Their transaction fees _should_ go down as they process a larger number of transactions. Makes the partnership much more strategic, and it makes sense why Starbucks also invested - mi
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by salman89 14y ago
Anecdotal, but at a sandwich shop the other day, I tipped $1 when the cashier handed the iPad to me. Not sure if I would have done the same when signing a regular receipt.
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by salman89 14y ago
https://squareup.com/pay-with-square Smart phone based wallet, a la Google Wallet.
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I think more than any other benefit, Square has been validated by a premier American chain. It will be a much easier sell to other large chains. The big money for Square is in having these large customers with multiple POS deployments, wher
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by salman89 14y ago
Just bought a MBA yesterday, and my relatively unbiased impression (from a non Apple product user) is that the power adaptor is awesome. In fact, I would worry if it were more securely fastened in there - I don't mind if it falls out, if it
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by salman89 14y ago
Great examples. How do you think this would apply in Dalton's case though, where the very mechanism of building on Facebook/Twitter's platform can be shut down by Facebook/Twitter?
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"The lesson instead is: build something whose very nature makes it a cannibalistic cash flow hit for a BigCo so that their shareholders resist competing, but which their users love." Can anyone explain more what he means by that? How can so
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by salman89 14y ago
Can't see how this is true, whether or not someone at Groupon said it was. How can a business who places a deal at a large discount and is paying Groupon a significant cut be making money on the deal itself? Is the redemption rate of these
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by salman89 14y ago
While I don't feel Facebook is doomed, this article really lacks meaningful content. "And, if it can leverage the physical goods loophole on iOS, it can become the social shopping platform. So buh bye lame “Social stories” and buh bye Amazo
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I don't think this is a winner take all space. I am more interesting in understanding how these products are differentiating against each other, most importantly in how they plan to drive more sales for the business. I'm not sure how valuab
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by salman89 14y ago
I do think it is important to have a platform that is easy to access, and I'm sure you guys are working hard at that. Is there any data that validates the notion that people will be leaving 5+ minute long messages for each other? I honestly
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by salman89 14y ago
How is this different from other apps like blip.me (besides for the obvious web vs mobile platform)? A year ago a bunch of friends and myself installed and began to use blip, but the novelty quickly wore off. Can't remember the last time I
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by salman89 14y ago
I don't understand how it went on for 45 minutes without human intervention. Do they really not have a live person at the very least monitoring trades?
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by salman89 14y ago
If it makes it to the front page the it means enough people found it insightful or helpful. I for one did, and when/if I want to do some concurrent threading in Python, I know where to start.
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by salman89 14y ago
I'm not going to comment on directly for profit (read: paid) apps, but there are a large number of apps that exist for benefits outside of just direct revenue generation. These benefits can include greater exposure for said company, value a
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by salman89 14y ago
Not sure if this is supposed to be a paid Twitter, or if it is a paid platform for developers who need a real time feed infrastructure. If it is the latter, who owns the data? If it is the paying developer, be assured that they will sometim
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by salman89 14y ago
Github's core offering is a hosted git solution. I'm not sure how a crowd funding add on fits into that core offering. Like another user already said, more money doesn't necessarily mean a boost in development speed/quality. I think there i
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No publicly available that I've seen. Most companies use STATS inc
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Facebook always had photo sharing features built into their apps, but was still dominated by Instagram. Lesson here is that mobile apps are very task oriented - people have apps to check their email, get directions, etc. Having function spe
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by salman89 15y ago
Any chance these publishers can band together union style for better leverage? I'd guess that the sheer number of publishers would make this not possible.
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by salman89 15y ago
"And at its heart, education remains a fundamentally human endeavor." This is not necessarily true. There may be a way for technology to facilitate the alternative learning methods that the author is suggesting.
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by salman89 15y ago
I think that the author is misleading his readers. YC is a far cry from a training program. "Often this training involves setting up an American corporation for the startup activities - but I'll get to that later.". Why didn't he just say h
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by salman89 15y ago
I get the no ads part - but this article is ignoring that tracking tools may be an essential component of search engine effectiveness.
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by salman89 15y ago
I think the Smart TV features should be built into a set-top box rather than the TV itself, and the TV should be used as just display. Think about 5 years from now, when you are not quite ready to upgrade your TV, but your "smart tv" is now
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by salman89 15y ago
Internet access is not a human right, but right of free will when you are not harming anyone and right of free speech (a derivative of free will) is. That makes me think that when internet is taken away, there is a violation of human rights
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