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Does the typical email user have an inbox which is half empty? Do users just read email that seems exciting? Do users want to just glance at their email periodically?
Between income tax, hotel tax + the likelihood of the govt or management company coming after you, I think AirBnB is looking a little less enticing to regular people in NYC to rent their homes.
When you offer this fraud guarantee for e-commerce sites, I'll be your first customer.
Bill - could you please explain some of the fine print? Are all chargebacks covered? Do you provide the ability to select which countries to accept payments from? Thanks so much!
When customers issue a chargeback, they almost always side with the customer, leaving with the merchant with very little recourse. As a merchant, you just lose the money.
My belief is that bitcoin coupled with the right payment experience will disrupt the industry at some point. I would highly suggest reading Marc Andreessen view on the subject: http://blog.pmarca.com/2014/01/22/why-bitcoin-matters/
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We're particularly looking for somebody who would get enthused by challenge of brining remittances into the 21st century. These days, 90% of international money transfers still involve somebody walking to a western union like institution and sending cash. We think this process can be way easier for both the sender and the receiver.
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shouldn't this be the strategy which microsoft pursues?
Maybe at some point they will integrate research into the product groups so that we can still really cool (self driving car cool) projects coming out of Microsoft
I was surprised to learn that most chose to do them online so that they can cheat on the tests. Free from instructor supervision all tests were open book and thus were much easier than taking them in person.
While many of us have high ideals for online education, I've learned that the majority of students get a degree for the diploma first and the education second.
Is there really another way to show up in a spot and instantly be plugged into a community who introduces you to their friends and wants to hang out with you?
This is the trailer: https://vimeo.com/57182041
ALM is that is where the money is. Higher-ups in orgs are much more willing to pay for oversight and management features than language features.
i do think there is wisdom in joining a startup run by veterans out of college. at least then you get the experience in running a startup.
if you join a big company, you get educated in the skills needed to succeed at a big company, which unfortunately are very different to the skills needed to doing something on your own.
i do like his quote though that it will take about 10,000 hours to get good at anything...