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A feeless payment, bank-bank, without having to know your account number
6 points by tomasien 13y ago|9 comments
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by tomasien 13y ago
I don't know why I can't reply to you but 1. That's what YC almost always does, invest as the first and only investor in their own round where they take 7%-ish equity in exchange for a bit of money and all the other things th
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by tomasien 13y ago
Not PG specifically, but unless you operate on the premise that getting into YC does nothing to help your startup OR that YC's acceptance processes are flawless (two assertions I'm 100% certain PG would not make) then there is a l
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by tomasien 13y ago
Are you still going to write about women founders? I 100% take you on your word about all of this, but that I still think a lot of the things you said were off the mark in understandable but important ways[1]. You're obviously well mea
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by tomasien 13y ago
So the leverage is either official (maybe they have a board seat) or (more often) social - founders feel either that they SHOULD listen to their investors because they're older and more experienced or that they have to for various reas
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by tomasien 13y ago
I think Paul also gets a pass because we're all basically 100% sure he means well. But that should be the opposite of what we do - I'm sure he is the kind of person who is always willing to revealuate his thoughts if presented wit
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by tomasien 13y ago
This is something I've wondered about - I hear people warning about investors pushing them toward an end they don't want, but what leverage do they have?
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by tomasien 13y ago
I don't think creating a "startup" style business, with a scalable-repeatable business model, that is only mildly profitable is particularly common. Either you can be pretty darn profitable, acquihired (usually brokered by in
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by tomasien 13y ago
How long will this last? Rap Genius is a fantastic asset to the world, I hope this isn't permanent.
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Show HN: give apps as last minute Christmas gifts(app.given.to)
2 points by tomasien 13y ago|0 comments
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by tomasien 13y ago
There are a lot of people bringing up edge cases and contingencies on this thread. The success of Buffer's culture is what happens when you stop being afraid of the edge cases and start deciding what kind of people you want to be. Peop
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by tomasien 13y ago
Apple annoys me with how closed off they are in many ways, but this is the example I always bring up when people are trying to HATE Apple for being so closed off - they destroyed the most destructive force in mobile UX ever - the phone comp
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by tomasien 13y ago
No fees baby - it's the future, and it's coming in 2014 to payments as well.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Gonna use this in the Coffitivity iOS apps! We're writing a ton of 3rd party app integrations to get rid of the way we mix music in the app (which makes no sense right now) and we were shocked that we had to go find custom URLs for eve
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by tomasien 13y ago
Reddit, for example, sold for like 20-30 million so isn't included. I know some other YC businesses that seem unlikely to ever be huge but are profitable and probably will be as long as they want to be. Own Local has that feeling to me
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by tomasien 13y ago
I understand them, people are guarded and skeptical and they should be w/r/t the homeless. They are exploited almost by design at every level. This isn't what happened here, and I actually think what happened here is a model
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by tomasien 13y ago
This hasn't reached a flame war, did this get flagged off the front page? Is it because Slate is perhaps a marked site? This doesn't seem right, this is like a "Show HN" and followup to a story lots of people on HN have
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by tomasien 13y ago
Have you ever read a thread about gender issues? It's worse. Side note: I appreciate the concern over whether this is exploitative. It doesn't make me mad. If you've read the stories, it hasn't been at ALL or even close,
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by tomasien 13y ago
Don't tell people how to care. God I hate this comment so much, care however you want. Care a little bit and give him $0.70, care a lot and try to something, care any way you want.
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by tomasien 13y ago
This is way better than my first app, oh my goodness! Of course it didn't get me a ride to the gym (I live in Richmond, VA, wasn't likely) BUT it did work flawlessly.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Paypal hangs on for 2 reasons: 1. Foreign countries, where credit cards aren't common (but banks are) 2. People in the US who hate entering CC info for every payment 3. Merchants without alternatives People have felt for a while that t
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by tomasien 13y ago
I like to comment on all Codecademy posts this fact: I learned to code on Codecademy for 3 months, then 3 months of trial and error projects on my own. 18 months after writing my first line of code, I run my own successful consulting busine
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by tomasien 13y ago
I've found, in my experience, the average person, no matter what level in society they have achieved or have not achieved, does not understand 1. People who don't live like them 2. How cities work
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by tomasien 13y ago
He's not talking about the FB acquisition, he's talking about the rumored funding round. If there were an ac on the table, it was, at least until they turned it down, worth at least the price of the ac of course. He makes that dis
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by tomasien 13y ago
This is going to make my life so much easier for the next few years as these situations come up more and more.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Interesting the mention of payment processors like PayPal or Dwolla but little mention of payments. If banks became the primary interface for making payments, that would change everything for businesses and allow the kind of data usage they
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by tomasien 13y ago
Seconded. I went to a High School that consistently has the second highest SAT scores in the country, and was able to get in because I lived in an area that has trouble filling their allocated slots at the school. It has been a tremendous a
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by tomasien 13y ago
Because it says in the article that several of their businesses are producing lots of cash, just not growing. This is not to defend the business, I have no interest in doing so, but the ONLY thing about this that is even reasonably a cautio
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by tomasien 13y ago
"The freefall of Demand serves as a cautionary tale for hype in the Internet age: No company burns so hot that it can’t cool off." What a crock - what cautionary tale? A company that grew really fast, is still producing lots of ca
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by tomasien 13y ago
W/R/T who reads it, one of my best friends LOVES Valleywag and I ask him about it all the time. He thinks SV is just up its own ass (maybe), especially as it relates to social issues (yes) and that makes it like hate porn for him.

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