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by tomasien 12y ago
OHHH that sucks! That's mah old project - I run https://knoxpayments.com now
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by tomasien 12y ago
Thanks for letting me know that is super weird - I don't see that error and I don't recognize it. Are you browsing in some non-standard way I need to account for (weird browser or something?)
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by tomasien 12y ago
Absolutely, and you've got to remember that the gatekeepers use heuristics meant to target the greatest chance at being the rightest, not ensuring that they don't miss a few obvious ones. Such it is with YC - their heuristics are
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by tomasien 12y ago
I never got into Y Combinator (I think I applied 4 times but I'm not sure) but I'm now the CEO of a rapidly growing, well funded startup that actually SERVES an increasing number of YC companies. The way I always thought about YC
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by tomasien 12y ago
I don't know anyone that wants to build photo-sharing networks of any kind. I've never been pitched that app. Maybe you guys have, but I haven't - that WAS actually an interesting problem and probably is to a certain kind of
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by tomasien 12y ago
It's unlikely that a competitor with only a $1bn market cap building a similar product to you will be the reason you are or aren't successful unless they're OTHER product makes their new, more similar to yours offering more v
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by tomasien 12y ago
I was careful to say "if you're a person who believes monopolies are bad" - it's ancillary to my point whether they actually are.
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by tomasien 12y ago
"Monopolies are good for the businesses that have them" is so ridiculously axiomatic I wish he would just stop making it the focus of his talk. We know this, and we know VC's get drastically bigger returns on those. The reaso
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by tomasien 12y ago
There's some crazy, crazy infrastructure growth going on with BTC, Ripple, and Stellar. It's thrilling to see what is just becoming possible.
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by tomasien 12y ago
If you're referring to the recent price drop - you should learn about what causes price fluctuation in Bitcoin. It's actually largely due to the fact that Bitcoin is actually rapidly becoming USED rather than HELD which causes dow
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by tomasien 12y ago
Just realized I double posted this - awesome quote for 1985
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A letter to my daughter, Augusta, in Ruby (2013)(jacquesfuentes.com)
1 points by tomasien 12y ago|0 comments
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by tomasien 12y ago
Citibank sometimes returns "what is your account number and debit card number" as security questions when you try to login from a computer it doesn't recognize. Just goes to show - asking harder questions is not security. KYC
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by tomasien 12y ago
Also is http://www.paulgraham.com/ down for anyone else?
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by tomasien 12y ago
Glaring logical conclusion that is omitted: if there even is the slight bump in the likelihood of success having worked for someone else vs. not, it's still clear that simply the number of attempts at starting a company is still the ov
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by tomasien 12y ago
Yep - if you spend 8 years working for someone else, that's 2-4 chances at a startup you've lost.
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Why the Ice Bucket Challenge working(blog.knoxpayments.com)
2 points by tomasien 12y ago|0 comments
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by tomasien 12y ago
That's a legitimate opinion - but it's how the game has been played for in the CC world for a while. There's huge lock in to these providers and they know they'll get'm for years at a higher rate, and the merchants
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by tomasien 12y ago
This is my point - y'all aren't even reading what Amazon is saying! They're LITERALLY going to raise the price to 2.5% - it's on the page! It's actually spelled out "we are going to raise our prices".
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by tomasien 12y ago
It's temporary - they're making it seem like it's lower than it is. They're going to lock people in and then jack up the rate - it's classic CC processing trick and it's BULLSHIT. Even if the real price is writ
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by tomasien 12y ago
1.75% limited of time offer makes me want to vomit. The one thing I like about Square is at least they're not like other CC processors that make the careers HIDING fees from their merchants. Now Amazon is coming out the gate doing this
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by tomasien 12y ago
Good! Tesla has pushed the big car companies to do what they could have done decades ago - build and distribute fully electric cars that are the same or better quality than non-electric cars. And, your questionable view that profitability f
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by tomasien 12y ago
Just because they've been working on it for decades doesn't mean they're the one's best positioned to it. See electric cars/Tesla.
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by tomasien 12y ago
Yeah I mean the car companies have been working on electric cars for DECADES, how could HE beat them to it?
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by tomasien 12y ago
Your CSS quibble is a matter of taste, you have a legitimate complaint about the JS so I wouldn't muddy it with a taste based comment about CSS verbosity.
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by tomasien 12y ago
Specialization is better than generalization for everyone but those who become hegemonic. If I come to Justin.tv I think "I don't know what I might find here (short of looking for pirated content)" and on Twitch I know "
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Should VC's and Ad Agencies get together?(medium.com)
1 points by tomasien 12y ago|0 comments
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by tomasien 12y ago
That's a ton (it's really 5%) for for convenient international movement of money, I actually agree it's not horrible given the dearth of better options. Something built on BTC/Steller/Ripple will probably improve up
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by tomasien 12y ago
Yeah that's what I mean
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by tomasien 12y ago
And I find "Yo" useful! I love Coffitivity, it is a little silly though. It's also really important and powerful in millions of peoples lives - Yo isn't quite at that point yet but it totally could be. But they're b

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