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by theflyingkiwi42 12y ago
Oh, that's brilliant (not sure how to enforce it though). If it works to raise money, I am happy to pay for it (we're currently trying to raise $500k so very much a potential customer). Probably worth $1k to $2.5k to me if it is s
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by theflyingkiwi42 12y ago
As a potential user, I'd like that. A monthly subscription is just another thing I need to manage. Also, I feel like I am paying for a time where I may not be using it yet (there's a time delay between setting it up and actually g
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by theflyingkiwi42 12y ago
How did (potential) investors like this? We're just starting our fundraising process. This looks interesting but I am afraid it adds friction for the investor who may not want to be tracked, nor does it make it easy for them to share i
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by theflyingkiwi42 12y ago
My main issue with Balanced is that since I don't use them to collect payments, it takes forever to get the money moved to them. And it is a manual process. So every Monday morning I get a file with payments. I have to move that amount
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by theflyingkiwi42 12y ago
Just curious. How hard is it for a bank to agree to be your “Originating Depository Financial Institution"? We currently use Balanced for ACH payouts, but it sounds like we could actually do this ourselves and significantly speed up th
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
There's a big difference between being a developer and being somebody with a CS degree. In my experience with hiring developers, I always value people being self-taught. This means you made things work! To me, that's the differenc
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
Simplystudio.com We're looking for a full-time remote (US/Canada only) senior front-end/UI developer. Currently our system is an all-in-one business management SaaS for photographers and we're ready to start expanding in
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
You can also not fund stripe to do ACH payments. So if you have your own merchant account with much lower rates, you cannot use Stripe to pay out. You can with Balanced, which is awesome (in theory).
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
I really want to like Balanced, and we signed up a few weeks ago. Before signing up, I contacted them on the IRC channel and asked if there were any other requirements to get started and send out payments. We would be sending out approximat
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
We call the next day. I'll see what happens if we call within an hour. Good suggestion - thanks!
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
We call every sign-up, but only about 5% answers the call. While we leave a nice voicemail message, and offer a free setup session, very few users take us up on it. Almost none of the people that we leave a voicemail with call us back. Are
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
I want to add that we religiously use a format outlined here (also mentioned in the Constant Contact video): http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
Patrick, thank you for the Gail Goodman link. That was priceless.
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
I've launched a few different businesses, two SaaS business and one software product. In all three cases people bought it on day one or the first day after the trial expired. The first SaaS business I just posted on a few forums to com
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
Actually, faster focusing, better lenses (and thus better bokeh) do make a difference. I recently compared a Nikon D3200, D5200, D7100 and a D700, all using the same (or close to same) lower megapixels count of around 10. The higher end cam
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
The Fair Tax would take care of most of that. Any transaction with a business would have sales tax. There are no write offs, so the business asset would not fly, neither would be buying Ferraris. http://www.fairtax.org/site&
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
Where does your 1/3 liberal come from? I cannot find that anywhere. You are corrected they were not targeted for AUDITS, but they were targeted. It is not just the problem that they were targeted based on name (I actually think that's prett
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
Lewis Libby did not out Valerie Plame's status. It was reporter Robert Novak who did. It was also never 'leaked' as political retribution. "In late August 2006, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage revealed publicly that N
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
Simply Studio / 17 Hats ( http://simplystudio.com/ ) - IRVINE, CA / REMOTE (US/CANADA preferred) We're looking for a senior web developer to join our team. We're building a fantastic one-stop SAAS app for one person businesses. It handles e
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
Yes, I am. I am sure there are big differences (especially in the outcome) but both were losing money in the hope of building an audience, and to lower costs later. As Hsieh wrote: "Zappos sells shoes and apparel online, but what distinguis
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by theflyingkiwi42 13y ago
Reading the Ecomom story it reminds me of Zappos. That company too was losing a lot of money. It only sold to Amazon after their investors refused to put more money in. The Ecomom story is pretty mind boggling from a sound business perspect